Five Million Conversations

by Iain Watson

Overview

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?

 This huge democratic exercise … all across this country showed our party and our movement, passionate, democratic, diverse, united and absolutely determined in our quest for a decent and better society.JEREMY CORBYN

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910745267
Publisher:	Luath Press Limited
Publication date:	03/31/2016
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

IAIN WATSON is a BBC Political Correspondent who works across TV, radio and online. He reports regularly for Radio 4’s Today programme and previously for BBC2’s Newsnight and the flagship BBC1 political show On the Record. He extensively covered both the 2010 and 2015 general elections, spending the entire campaigns ‘on the road’. He also covered the Scottish referendum. Despite being Westminster editor of the Sunday Herald, he was delighted to decamp to Edinburgh to cover the first elections to the Scottish parliament in 1999. He lives in London with his wife and son.