Who's Tim? More than half of voters do not know who Tim Farron is

Fewer than half of the public know who Tim Farron is, according to a new poll.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats has travelled thousands of miles on his yellow battle bus across the length and breadth of Britain trying to convince voters to back his party.

He has been photographed in a hover craft on a beach, he has had a row with a Leave voter and taken part in a fun run in full view of the ever present television cameras.

Yet the party's poll rating has barely moved and now a new survey of people by the pollsters Opinium has found that 52 per cent of voters cannot name the Lib Dem leader.

The study also found that nearly one in five people in Britain do not know Theresa May is the leader of the Conservative party.

It also revealed that 12 per cent of those surveyed couldn’t correctly identify Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: “Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have spent big to make sure they are as recognisable as possible, but according to our research, a large percentage of the population still don’t know who they are. 

"This could indicate an apathy from the British public to politics, or that the likes of May, Corbyn and Farron simply aren’t charismatic enough to be remembered."

It came as Mr Farron said the Manchester Arena bombing should not be "politicised" for election gain.

He called for communities to come together in the wake of the atrocity as he urged political leaders to resist the temptation to exploit what had happened.

He told the Press Association: "This is not a time for us to be pointing the finger.

"It is very tempting, isn't it, for politicians to try and score points and to make some political capital, and it's important to resist that temptation."