Five million conversations
Subtitle: how Labour lost an election and rediscovered its roots
By: Iain Watson
Publisher: Luath Press Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781910745267
Subjects: History; Elections; Politics and government; Politics and Government; Labour Party (Great Britain); Labour Party; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons; Great Britain
Description: "'We have had five million conversations. This will go to the wire.' - Ed Miliband. Iain Watson was the BBC Political Correspondent assigned to follow the Labour campaign. He shares the gaffes and glories of the 2015 general election culminating in the notorious Edstone and humiliating defeat. He offers a colourful account of the intimate day-to-day moments not captured on camera and reveals the divisions, doubts and delusions of Miliband s core campaign team. As self-proclaimed winners of the "ground war", how could Labour have got it so wrong? How could Labour's activists talk to a record number of voters and end up with fewer seats than at the previous election? What was the nature of those conversations? How will the party's next leader avoid the same mistakes? And how did Labour's leadership election create a gap that only Jeremy Corbyn could fill?"--Back cover.