Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election
By (Author) Tim Ross
By (author) Tom McTague
Biteback Publishing
Biteback Publishing
1st December 2017
31st October 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
324.6094109051
Physical Properties
Paperback
356
Description
On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election.With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn's divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher's day seemed certain.
Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead of the 100-seat victory she'd been hoping for, May had lost her majority, leaving Parliament hung and her premiership hanging by a thread. Labour MPs, meanwhile, could scarcely believe their luck. Far from delivering the wipe-out that most predicted, Corbyn's popular, anti-austerity agenda won the party 30 seats, cementing his position as leader and denying May the right to govern alone.
This timely and indispensable book gets to the bottom of why the Toriesfailed, and how Corbyn's Labour overcame impossible odds to emerge closer to power than at any election since the era of Tony Blair.Who was to blame for the Tories' mistakes How could so many politicians and pollsters fail to seewhat was coming And what was the secret of Corbyn's apparently unstoppable rise
Through new interviews and candid private accountsfrom key players, political journalists TimRoss and Tom McTague set out to answer these questions and more, piecing together theinsidestory of this most dramaticand important of elections.
Author Bio
Tim Ross reports U.K. politics and Brexit for Bloomberg. Based in Westminster as a political journalist since 2011, he has worked for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and wrote the acclaimed book on the 2015 election, Why the Tories Won. He lives in London with his wife and their two sons.; Tom McTague is POLITICO's chief U.K. political correspondent, based in Parliament. He previously covered British politics for the Independent on Sunday, Mail Online and the Mirror and frequently appears as a guest commentator on television. Tom grew up in Co. Durham and now lives in London with his wife and son.
