Five Million Conversations

Five Million Conversations tells the ‘inside story’ of what led the Labour Party to an unexpectedly bad result and attempts to answer the questions ‘how could that happen’ and ‘what now for Labour and its new leader?

Iain Watson

IAIN WATSON is a BBC Political Correspondent who works across TV, radio and online. He reports regularly for Radio 4’s Today programme and previously for BBC2’s Newsnight and the flagship BBC1 political show On the Record. He extensively covered both the 2010 and 2015 general elections, spending the entire campaigns ‘on the road’. He also covered the Scottish referendum. Despite being Westminster editor of the Sunday Herald, he was delighted to decamp to Edinburgh to cover the first elections to the Scottish parliament in 1999. He lives in London with his wife and son.