Thread by @robfordmancs

Very excited to come to London and launch "The British General Election of 2019". Exactly two years ago, the Conservatives launched their manifesto (on a Sunday) - a crucial turning point for the party, which was scarred by the disastrous reception to its 2017 manifesto

https://twitter.com/UKandEU/status/1463444100309565445

Given the central importance of manifestos in the last election (and the one before that) it is a great pleasure to have central figures from both parties' manifesto processes - @rcolvile (Con) and @FisherAndrew79 (Lab) joining us for a discussion of the election this evening

@rcolvile @FisherAndrew79 You can tune in live - see the link on the @UKandEU tweet. And if you'd like to learn more, there lots more on manifestos and much else besides in the book, now available in hardback, paperback and Kindle edition here:

amazon.co.uk/British-Genera…

@rcolvile @FisherAndrew79 @UKandEU Here's what @paulwaugh said about the Con manifesto launch two years ago: "Johnson twice used the phrase “sensible, moderate One Nation Conservatism”. Sensible is not a word you’d normally associate with the self-styled swashbuckler of the Tory party..."

@rcolvile @FisherAndrew79 @UKandEU @paulwaugh "If felt like this great gambler, having bet his career on a December election, was doing everything he could to avoid any slip-ups..On today's evidence, to paraphrase the insult once lobbed at Clement Attlee, [Johnson] is an immodest man with much to be modest about."