It has been a pretty stressful few weeks to be a Lib Dem, let’s be honest. It’s good, then, that there is something to cheer us up. Tim Farron went on Russell Howard’s Good News last night and came over really well – funny, decent and showing all signs of getting what actually matters to people.

I’m not going to spoil it for you, because you need to watch it yourself. I will just make an observation that he probably never expected to be asked, way back in the 90s when he was speaking at Conference (clip shown) to be on national television being asked if he’d ever had a sexual encounter with a pig. He repeated his answer made when that story came out – that he had never been so glad to be a vegetarian.

“The wonderful Tim Farron” were Russell Howard’s parting words. This was the first many people will have seen of Tim, his first proper tv interview. It’s a very, very good start. Watch it here. He recorded that just after the parliamentary party meeting that made the decision about Syria and he does talk about that. His response was very well received by the audience.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings