Indyplus video: Is this the next leader of the Lib Dems?

Any hope Tim Farron may once have entertained that Nick Clegg might invite him to take up ministerial office haslong disappeared. However, the current opinion polls suggest that unless the public mood shifts, in 2015 there will either be a Labour government or a Labour led coalition.

That result would almost certainly cause Nick Clegg to resign, triggering a leadership election, in which the party President is likely to be the favourite candidate of party activists who never liked being hitched to the Tories. Could that be Tim Farron?

Watch him discuss the future of his party below: