The fact he wanted to be prime minister didn’t give anyone the right to ask him questions about his views, an angry Tim Farron said last night.

Announcing his resignation, the Lib Dem leader hit back at journalists who refused to settle for opaque answers to whether he thinks homosexuality is a sin.

Mr Farron said: “The consequence of the focus on my faith is that I have found myself torn between disapproving of homosexuals and the necessity of people not knowing that I do.

“That is not on.

“Journalists have every right to ask what they see fit. But when a man’s faith isn’t treated like a licence for bigotry, then I’m sorry, we are not living in a tolerant society.

“I tried clever answers, like ‘We are all sinners.’ That would have worked for Jesus. It wasn’t good enough for you though, was it?

“That’s why I have chosen to return to an obscure life in which I hope answers like that will be enough to make gays drop it.”

The word ‘stability’ is on the verge of signing a deal with ‘certainty’ after failing to hypnotise enough people into voting Tory.

While opponents have said the voting swing is a rejection of platitudes in politics, senior Tories have noted that could involve saying what they actually think, something they hope to avoid with more platitudes.

The deal is being thrashed out despite concern from critics who say the only new word that can be formed using letters from ‘stability’ and ‘certainty’ is ‘Satan’.

Newly appointed Environment Secretary Michael Gove said: “That’s simply not true. We can also make the word ‘Satanic’ which by lucky coincidence is how the Government now views homosexuality, abortion and science.”

Theresa May will continue to repeat the word “stability” long after everyone has stopped listening, Conservative sources have confirmed.

Despite a career characterised by havoc, the Prime Minister will continue to promise stability in response to any question she is asked for the rest of her life, and beyond, sources say.

A source said: “She doesn’t in fact require questions. We’ve come to the conclusion she doesn’t hear them.

“Ask her some questions, about anything you want, and then stop asking her questions and note the impact on the frequency at which she promises stability: none.

“If Theresa May falls down in the woods and there is no one around to hear, does she still say ‘I am very clear that what is needed is the stability only I can offer’?

“Yes, she does.

“Her epitaph will read ‘I told you I would achieve stability.’”

The UK will today again vote in the interests of Rupert Murdoch, he has confirmed.

The billionaire media mogul this morning ended weeks of uncertainty by using his flagship newspaper to tell the country what is going to happen.

The early confirmation of the election result saves voters any further deliberation or speculation on polling day, now that they all know what they are to do.

Voter Ray Doyle said: “I’m not sure why I must vote Tory because it doesn’t say. It only says why I mustn’t not vote Tory. Voting Tory must be like breathing.

“Should I breathe? Rupert hasn’t said. On no, now I’ve died.”

Fellow voter Will Bodie said: “Other papers are still talking about what might happen. Why didn’t they read this?

“I don’t know why we even bothered with this election when we can let the world’s most manipulative man decide again.

“Given his rampant privilege and power, his newspapers could be taken as a barometer of exactly what not to do, but it doesn’t say that here so I’m not making that connection.”

Hardly any police at all will be needed if they are given the powers to arrest and detain suspects on a whim, Theresa May has said.

Ending the time-consuming business of evidence gathering by tearing up human rights will enable just a handful of Judge Dredd-style officers to arrest, convict and “neutralise” suspects based on guesswork, according to the Prime Minister.

Amid claims the public has been put at risk by police cuts she oversaw as Home Secretary, Mrs May said: “Let’s put the public at risk of arrest instead.”

She said: “The police no longer have time to investigate the most serious crimes and I will ensure they don’t need to by allowing them to arrest and detain people based on a hunch.

“I’m talking about the people we don’t have enough evidence to prosecute in court but think might be a threat anyway.

“Let’s cut to the chase here. I’m talking about Muslims.

“By giving police powers to arrest them for no particular reason, I can pretty much guarantee an end to radicalisation.

“If it doesn’t work we’ll have to go further but let’s not explore where that road leads to at this stage.

“If I am elected as Prime Minister on Thursday, that work begins on Friday.”

A man who adopted Theresa May as his motivation and role model for attaining strength and stability has become afraid and desperate, he has admitted.

Ray Doyle has spent the weeks since the Prime Minister called a snap election emulating her in a bid to become strong and stable and is now too scared to leave his house.

My Doyle said: “I often get asked questions I don’t want to deal with, for example by my wife, children or boss, so I was inspired to see how Mrs May answers everything simply by saying something unrelated about strong and stable leadership, best deal for Britain and very clear.

“However, after a confident start, like her I now deliver the same lines looking like I’m dying inside.

“I tried staring at a picture of her and reciting the words ‘strong and stable’. I have to go now because the walls are closing in again.”

Mr Doyle’s colleague Will Bodie said: “He called a meeting and didn’t turn up, and when I texted him I got a reply saying ‘Too busy getting best deal, why aren’t you?’

“I found him in his office pressing the ‘escape’ key over and over again and crying.

“The funny thing is, I’m inspired by Jeremy Corbyn and I don’t remember feeling better.”

An Isis source has claimed the group is responsible for the death of Sir Roger Moore, telling Swan Bake: “Who? Oh yeah, that was us.”

The source said: “A caliphate soldier was able to destroy the crusader Sir Patrick Moore.

“What? Yeah, right, Roger Moore on… Monday? Tuesday, yes.

“The martyr… There was no martyr? Oh, okay. The soldier was able to cause the accident… What? The cancer, yes the cancer. We made that.

“So watch out. We’re not in retreat and desperate.

“This is just the beginning. Grrr.”

A man earning over £80,000 a year is not voting Labour simply because he doesn’t want to pay any more tax and expects you to sympathise with his bullshit, he has confirmed.

Ray Doyle thinks he pays “enough tax already” even though it is patently clear from the state of public services that he does not.

He believes that the statement “I would fall into the new higher rate” should be considered persuasive justification of his position by the 95% of people who would not, instead of an affirmation of his bloated sense of entitlement.

Mr Doyle said: “Yes, it might pay for 10,000 more police officers, hundreds of thousands of council houses and make millions of people better off.

“More importantly though, it would not make me better off. I could be down £1,000 a year, to my last £53,000 after tax. So fuck you, anyone who votes Labour is crazy and doesn’t understand how things work.

“Am I right or am I right?”

A man is seeing clear parallels in the 2017 General Election with his own competing desires to help with his children’s education or kill animals for fun.

News that Theresa May supports fox hunting while Labour will scrap university fees has only confused matters for Ray Doyle, who last night spent an hour helping his son with maths before chasing down and killing a swan with a spade.

Mr Doyle said: “Timmy’s future is the most important thing in the world to me.

“Along with the simple pleasure of causing the needlessly terrifying and brutal deaths of animals.

“Timmy needs extra help and the specialist who provided it at his school has gone in Tory cuts, so it’s essential I do everything I can.

“With the time that leaves, I’m lucky if I get to slowly pull the legs off a spider.

“Do you see the dilemma for me in this election? And I’m just an ordinary man.”

Ray’s neighbour Will Bodie said: “Oh, him. Yeah, we haven’t really had much to do with him since we saw him swerve to run over that squirrel.

“You haven’t seen my cat have you?”