Andy Cooke

The Fifth Lectern: After 'the Fourth Lectern' - What Happens Next? Andy Cooke

What if? UKIP were given a lectern in the debates in 2010? That was the starting point of 'The Fourth Lectern'. That book covered the few weeks around the alternative 2010 General Election. What would have happened next? In The Fourth Lectern, the door for the UKIP surge opened just before the General Election in 2010, rather than a few years after it, as in our world. The resulting Government was fragile and a new election seemed inevitable - but was it? For how long could the embattled Prime Minister eke out his time? How long would it be until the next General Election? And when it was to come around - well, the rules for having a lectern at the debates now seemed clear. And another Party wanted in...