Betting the House The Inside Story of the 2017 Election

On18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snapelection. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn'sdivided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher's dayseemed certain. Sevenweeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead of the 100-seat victoryshe'd been hoping for, May had lost her majority, leaving Parliament hung andher premiership hanging by a thread. Labour MPs, meanwhile, couldscarcely believe their luck. Far from delivering the wipe-out that mostpredicted, Corbyn's popular, anti-austerity agenda won the party 30 seats,cementing his position as leader and denying May the right to governalone. This timely and indispensable book gets to the bottom of why theTories failed, and how Corbyn's Labour overcame impossible odds to emergecloser to power than at any election since the era of Tony Blair. Who wasto blame for the Tories' mistakes? How could so many politicians and pollstersfail to see what was coming? And what was the secret of Corbyn'sapparently unstoppable rise? Throughnew interviews and candid private accounts from key players, politicaljournalists Tim Ross and Tom McTague set out to answer these questions andmore, piecing together the inside story of this mostdramatic and important of elections.