At the Political Book Awards earlier this year, Matthew Goodwin and Rob Ford took home the £10,000 top prize for their book on the rise of Ukip, Revolt on the Right.
However, word reaches Steerpike that despite their success the literary duo have rather diverging views when it comes to their subject. In fact, the pair’s bickering on social media caused one user to liken it to ‘the Twitter version of seeing parents having a row’.
Ford, who lectures at the University of Manchester, took to Twitter to assert that he is the co-author of the book after Goodwin failed to name check him in a tweet:
.@GoodwinMJ @DPJHodges I co-authored that and I think this is a terrible poll for them there. Getting trounced in key target.
— Rob Ford (Britain) (@robfordmancs) April 27, 2015
It didn’t stop there, with the pair going on to argue further about Ukip polls:
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