Betting The House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election by Tim Ross & Tom McTague

84 in stock

136mm x 214mm x 34mm

Pages: 457

On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy CorbynGÇÖs divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret ThatcherGÇÖs day seemed certain.

Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead of the 100-seat victory sheGÇÖd 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, CorbynGÇÖs 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 Tories failed, and how CorbynGÇÖs 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 ToriesGÇÖ mistakes? How could so many politicians and pollsters fail to see what was coming? And what was the secret of CorbynGÇÖs apparently unstoppable rise?