was actually limestone. Dan Hodges reported that while watching Miliband unveil the tablet on television, a Labour press officer "started screaming. He stood in the office, just screaming over and over again at the screen. It was so bad they thought he was having a breakdown". A party adviser said after the election that "The only reason it got through 10 planning meetings was because we were all distracted, looking for a way to punch through on the SNP". By the evening it had also been called the "heaviest suicide note in history", a reference to a famous description of Labour's unpopular 1983 manifesto, dubbed "the longest suicide note in history". Lucy Powell, the Labour campaign's vice-chair, was widely thought to have committed a gaffe about the stone, when she said on Radio 5 Live: "I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fact that he's carved them in stone means he's absolutely not going to break them or anything like that". This was particularly damaging as the whole point of the stone had been to underline the seriousness of Miliband's commitment. Election aftermath and location Labour reportedly had two plans for its break-up and destruction if the party lost the election: throw the rubble away, or sell Berlin Wall-like chunks to party members to raise money. After Labour performed less well than expected, and the Conservatives won a surprise overall majority, the location of the stone became the subject of widespread speculation. Labour officials refused to disclose its location, for which various newspapers offered rewards. The Daily Telegraph contacted 50 masonry firms in an attempt to find it, whilst the Daily Mail offered a reward of a case of champagne for its location, and The Sun set up a hotline for information. The disappearance of the EdStone led to joking comparisons in the media with the Ark of the Covenant as portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the Ark is stored in secret in a large warehouse, its location undisclosed. The Conservatives held the seat in which the stone was unveiled, Hastings and Rye, with sitting MP Amber Rudd increasing her majority to 4,796. This figure was 5.4% greater than her majority in 2010. As of 15 May 2015, the EdStone was allegedly in storage inside a garage in South London. "There are claims it has been destroyed", The Guardian reported in early June 2015, "but