A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024
As Tory drawers are caught down yet again, the Opposition takes the chance to pull up its socks.
Prime Minister Eric Courtenay, fresh from another scandal, realises he has his work cut out when the Labour offensive kicks off with the charismatic Vicky Tennyson and handsome Christian Eccles at the helm, both dead set on an end to Conservative rule.
The desperate Tories resort to hiring maverick strategist Callum Gallagher to get them out of a fix. Gallagher’s methods are unusual in the extreme and kept from his employers. As he and his data geeks sieve through the red-hot web searches of the unsuspecting electorate, it becomes clear that sex sells. Everyone’s at it, but the question is whose fantasy will win the big role play?
To top it all, the Houses of Parliament are in desperate need of repair, but everyone’s too busy thinking about ballot boxes and throbbing majorities to care. If WHIPS got you hot under the collar, Cleavage will have you begging for more.
Cleo Watson is the author of Whips (Corsair) and the presenter of the Radio 4 series, How to Win a Campaign. She worked in politics and campaigning for over a decade, including President Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections and the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 EU referendum. In government, she served in 10 Downing Street as Theresa May’s political adviser then Boris Johnson’s co-deputy chief of staff. She tweets @cleowatson88.
