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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bitebackpublishing.com | Michael Ashcroft
The 2024 general election produced the worst defeat in the Conservative Party’s history. Five years after winning a commanding majority, the Tories lost half their vote and two thirds of their seats in parliament.
In Losing It Michael Ashcroft examines the seismic result and its causes.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
bitebackpublishing.com | Michael Ashcroft |Isabel Oakeshott |Kevin Meagher |Michael Crick
It’s July 2009. MPs have just been named and shamed in the expenses scandal; the UK has been plunged into a financial crisis; Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing internal challenges from the Labour Party; and the swine flu pandemic is raging through Britain. BUT, thankfully, Biteback Publishing has just been born!Six Prime Ministers and three referendums later, Biteback continues to break the publishing mould. Celebrate our 15th anniversary with some of our bestsellers from across the years.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
bitebackpublishing.com | Michael Ashcroft |Isabel Oakeshott |Kevin Meagher |Michael Crick
It’s July 2009. MPs have just been named and shamed in the expenses scandal; the UK has been plunged into a financial crisis; Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing internal challenges from the Labour Party; and the swine flu pandemic is raging through Britain. BUT, thankfully, Biteback Publishing has just been born!Six Prime Ministers and three referendums later, Biteback continues to break the publishing mould. Celebrate our 15th anniversary with some of our bestsellers from across the years.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bitebackpublishing.com | Michael Ashcroft
Book of the Week, The Times
During the Conservative Party leadership contest in the summer of 2022, Kemi Badenoch made an immediate impression on the public as a politician with robust views and a strong personality. Although only a junior minister at the time, she was marked out as a rising star and, having survived the race until the fourth ballot, even as a potential future leader.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
everand.com | Rachael Burford |Michael Ashcroft |Oliver Eagleton |Tim Newark
Save How To Lose A Referendum: The Definitive Story of Why The UK Voted for Brexit for later
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
everand.com | Nicholas Cecil |Tim Carr |Iain Watson |Michael Ashcroft
Millions of voters across London are going to the polls to elect the new Government. The Standard looks at key battleground and other seats in the capital, and has published an interactiveHere we turn the spotlight on:
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
everand.com | Matt Watts |Nicholas Cecil |Michael Ashcroft |Tim Carr
A new poll shows the Tories have narrowed Labour’s lead in the election as Rishi Sunak said the outcome on July 4 is not a “foregone conclusion”. The new survey from Savanta for the Telegraph on voter intention shows the Conservatives have closed their gap behind Labour to 15 points, the smallest lead for Sir Keir Starmer’s party by this pollster for a month.
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May 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Michael Ashcroft
The first Red Queen was Lewis Carroll’s. She was irrational and unpredictable, characteristics widely attributed by men to women. When the broadcaster Michael Cockerell conferred the title on Barbara Castle in his brilliant BBC television profile of her in 1995, it was not meant entirely as a compliment.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
everand.com | Louise Thompson |Michael Ashcroft |Tim Carr
The Conservatives are doomed to lose the election because voters will not forgive the behaviour of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, according to Britain’s top pollster. Professor Sir John Curtice said Mr Johnson’s No 10 lockdown parties and Ms Truss’s economic catastrophe have made it impossible for Rishi Sunak to cling on to power. The prime minister threw away his only hope of mending caused by Mr Johnson and Ms Truss when he failed to condemn their conduct sufficiently strongly, said Prof Curtice.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
newsletter.michaelashcroft.com | Michael Ashcroft
I just spent a week in the middle of nowhere in the south of Spain at 'RichFest 2' (named after the organiser, Rich Bartlett), where about 20 people from the Internet gathered to enjoy each other's company away from the familiar patterns of everyday life. There was a moderate amount of techno, there were participant-led workshops and there was all the joy of co-living, namely cooking and cleaning.
