Helen Lewis reflects on the rich fabric offered by May’s election – and finds inspiration beyond the Westminster bubbleBest of culture in 2015: see this year’s cultural highlights,chosen by the Guardian’s writers and criticsGoodbye 2015, and goodbye to big beasts like Ed Balls, and Vince Cable and the Alexanders (Douglas and Danny),all ushered off the political stage in an election that saw Scotland turn SNP yellow, Ukip reduced to a single MP and Ed Miliband replaced as Labour leader with lifelong backbencher Jeremy Corbyn.
The unexpected Tory majority gave writers plenty to chew over in their election postmortems. How did Labour, or which claimed to acquire won the ground war” on the eve of the election,fetch it so wrong? The BBC’s Iain Watson attempts to find out in Five Million Conversations (Luath), written in an accessible diary style. His conclusion is not a happy one: the party has serious political and organisational challenges to overcome whether it wants to capture power again (and it needs to capture seats it hasn’t held since Tony Blairs landslide in 1997).
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Source: theguardian.com