<p>The 2017 general election was supposed to be a walkover for the Conservative Party ? but the voters had other ideas.<br>In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened. His findings reveal what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit and where the party now stands after more than a d...