Ukip study scoops £10,000 prize for political book of the year

Revolt on the Right beats Alan Johnson memoir and The Snowden Files, while life of Roy Jenkins wins biography prize at 2015 Paddy Power awards

A study of the rise of Ukip was named the political book of the year at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Revolt on the Right, by the academics Matthew Goodwin and Robert Ford, won the £10,000 prize ahead of titles including MP Alan Johnson’s memoir Please, Mister Postman, Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s story of Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing, The Snowden Files, and Rochdale Labour MP Simon Danczuk’s allegations about Cyril Smith’s child abuse, Smile for the Camera, which sparked a criminal investigation last year. The prize money was donated by Lord Ashcroft, who judged the award alongside Mary Beard, the MP Keith Simpson, Lord Adonis and the journalist Ann Treneman.

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