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Nothing like it had ever been done before. In January 2019, the
Brexit Party was just a name. Over a matter of weeks, the party
would be launched, stand candidates across seventy seats and become
the largest single party in the European Parliament. Along the way,
it fought Establishment quangos, the courts, Parliament, the
Speaker and the government – hammering the Conservatives so hard
it forced the resignation of their Prime Minister – to win nearly
twice as many seats as its nearest rival. It was a success beyond
anyone’s dreams (or, indeed, anyone’s worst nightmare). And the
inside story of how it happened may serve as a manual of how to –
and occasionally how not to – do it. This unique book details the
wild ride of the brand-new Brexit Party as it heads from triumph in
the European elections to disaster in the general election six
months later. Packed with hilarious anecdotes about the reality of
setting up a new party, it takes the reader on a journey through
building the entire apparatus in an impossibly short time frame;
losing key players to enemy action; and facing chaotic scenes
created by a cat’s cradle of legal complications – before
arriving at the conclusion that politics is much more difficult
than it looks.
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