Gordon Brown and The Election That Never Was - PART 2 | Political Currency Podcast | FULL EPISODE

In 2007, Labour was leading the polls, Gordon Brown was riding high, and a snap general election seemed inevitable - until a dramatic Conservative comeback changed everything.

At Labour’s party conference in Bournemouth, election fever was at its peak. But just days later, at the Conservative conference in Blackpool, George Osborne unveiled a game-changing inheritance tax cut, and David Cameron delivered a standout no-notes speech. The result? Labour’s lead vanished in less than a week, rewriting the political story overnight.

In this episode of Inside The Room: The Election That Never Was, former Labour pollster Deborah Mattinson joins George Osborne and Ed Balls to revisit those critical weeks that shifted the course of British politics - from the highs of Labour’s dominance to the shock Tory fightback that nobody saw coming.

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