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How To Lose An Election, Really Badly

How To Lose An Election, Really Badly

How To Win An Election · Andrew Alexander

October 16, 202545m 33s

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Show Notes

As well as knowing how to win an election, the team have plenty of experience of losing them too. For this episode, recorded in front of an audience at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, we look at some campaigns that went really, really badly.


Sally chooses Neil Kinnock's defeat in 1987, Danny chooses John Major's drubbing in 1997, and Polly chooses Jo Swinson's ill-feted run at becoming prime minister in 2019.


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