Swinson: First female leader for Lib Dems

A 39-year old MP from East Dunbartonshire has succeeded Sir Vince Cable and become the first female leader of Liberal Democrats. Winning by an almost staggering 48,000 votes, she defeated her competitor, Sir Ed Davey by almost 20,000 to become the first woman and the youngest ever leader in charge of her party.
When Sir Vince Cable had inherited Liberal Democrats in 2017, the party was in a mess and continues to be in the political wilderness after its hammering in the 2015 general election. It hadn't made the progress it had hoped for in 2017's snap poll, and Tim Farron had quit suddenly as leader amid uncomfortable questions over his views on faith and homosexuality.
The Lib Dems were obliterated from 57 seats Commons to merely eight in 2015 after going into an austerity-pushing Coalition with the Tories - and breaking a promise not to hike university tuition fees. However, in the recently conducted EU and local elections Lib Dems managed to surge ahead of Tories and the Labour Party gaining strong footholds both in the UK and the EU. Now, political pundits and analysts predict that Swinson's election could pose a threat to Boris Johnson as she gears ahead to be a Prime Ministerial candidate.
"I stand before you today not just as leader of the Lib Dems, but as a candidate to be prime minister. There is no limit for my ambition for our party, our movement and our country. I am ready to take my party into a general election and win it," she said.
She was only 25 years old when she was first elected to Parliament in 2005, and regained her East Dunbartonshire seat in the 2017 general election after losing it two years earlier.
But it apperas, that it is the Labour party that should be concerned about their splintering vote share as opposed to Johnson herself. Swinson talks passionately about the identity issues that matter to many young Labour voters – her victory speech rallied against violence against LGBT couples and Islamophobia and antisemitism dominant in both main parties.