Five Million Conversations
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Five Million Conversations

How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Five Million Conversations

How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots

About this book

On the eve of the general election, Ed Miliband declared that Labour had won the 'ground war'. He proclaimed that his activists had been in touch with many more voters than his opponents: 'We have had five million conversations. This will go to the wire.' Yet the Conservatives went on to win a majority for the first time in more than two decades - while Labour lost seats in England, and were all but wiped out in Scotland. How could they get it so wrong? Iain Watson followed the Labour campaign around Britain, and now he examines what its senior politicians are now calling the party's 'political and organisational failures.' He exposes the high-level divisions over when to rule out a deal with the SNP, the gulf between perception and reality over Labour's level of support, and looks at the more successful campaigns of the Conservatives and Scottish Nationalists. He sets out the challenges for the next Labour leader, having had his own conversations with voters, activists and senior party figures, and discovers there is no easy solution to the party's problems.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Author bio
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. The Accidental Leader
  10. There may be Trouble Ahead
  11. Deal or No Deal
  12. The Battle for Downing Street
  13. From Builder to Soldier
  14. Funny Business
  15. Zero Sum Game
  16. We're All Labour Here
  17. Happy Warrior
  18. Chips off the Old Block
  19. A Bit of Politics
  20. A Taxing Issue
  21. Education, Education . . . Fratricide
  22. One Nation, No Vision?
  23. Unions and the Union
  24. Worry Points
  25. A Flock of Starlings
  26. 13,000 Conversations
  27. In Good Health?
  28. Hold the Front Page
  29. Missing a Trick?
  30. Invitation Only
  31. Campaign Stop
  32. Not a Big Enough Difference
  33. Put to the Test
  34. Immigration and Exploitation
  35. Picture Section
  36. Marriage of Convenience
  37. A Day at the Races
  38. The Most Unlikely Cult of the 21st Century
  39. Blood on his Hands, Blood on the Carpet
  40. New Town Blues
  41. Generation Rent
  42. Marred by the SNP Myth
  43. A Trip to the Theatre
  44. Building Non-Traditional Support
  45. Labour's Brand Problem
  46. Dangerous Territory
  47. No Question of Deals
  48. A Question of Credibility
  49. Mayday, Mayday... Scottish Labour's Existential Threat
  50. Facebook v Foot Weary
  51. Luvvies for Labour
  52. Edstone
  53. Message, Not Mileage
  54. Five Million Conversations
  55. The Strange Disappearance of Arnie Graf
  56. A Little Less Conversation
  57. Breakfast in Doncaster
  58. The Loser Always Wins?
  59. Moment of Truth
  60. Nuneaton is the New Basildon
  61. Exit
  62. A Question of Leadership
  63. Appendix 1
  64. Appendix 2
  65. Appendix 3
  66. Appendix 4
  67. Appendix 5
  68. Appendix 6
  69. Appendix 7