I'm greatly looking forward to Five Days That Changed Britain, tonight's Nick Robinson documentary on the aftermath of the general election. It includes interviews with all the key players apart from Gordon Brown.
Robinson has a fascinating piece in today's Telegraph in which he reveals some of the film's contents, including the revelation that Brown and his team were completely wrong-footted by Cameron's "big, open and comprehensive offer" to the Liberal Democrats on the morning of Friday, May 7. Brown was expecting Cameron to call for his resignation, clearing the way for a Conservative minority government, and thought the offer to the Lib Dems was a political miscalculation. "Brown regarded it as a mistake since it legitimised a deal-making, coalition-building process which Brown believed could only end one way – with a Lib/Lab government," writes Robinson. (To read more, click here.)
