Election 2015: the aftermath

Adrian Sykes surveys the highs and lows, as well as the winners and losers, from the wreckage that was last night's dramatic election.

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David Cameron led numerous bayonet charges against Labour

So. It's all over. In the end the results turned out rather closer to my estimates than the polls suggested. If anything, I was too circumspect on the Tories' prospects.

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Adrian Sykes was born just after WWII in Quetta, Baluchistan: now a regional HQ of the Pakistani Taliban, then in British India. Though his family lived in Calcutta until he was 19, he was educated in Britain, before joining the British Army. He served for five years, mostly in Germany and London, with tours in Libya and South Arabia.

 

He worked for 45 years, first as an analyst and stockbroker in the City, then as an investment banker based in Hong Kong; and finally, as an adviser to a major Swiss bank.

 

He is married, with four children and and lives in East Anglia. He published a history, Made in Britain, the Men and Women who Shaped the Modern World, in 2011, which is now available in paperback.