Alastair Campbell

speaker

805 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

Alastair Campbell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

TRIGGERnometry · Alastair Campbell vs. TRIGGERnometry: Grooming Gangs, Immigration and Iraq · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I can follow that person. matched

I think Tony probably was the last one in the UK context. matched

Cameron a bit, but not really, not really. matched

So I think Tony was probably the last one here. matched

You look at the French context, I actually thought, I think Macron is an exceptional political figure in all sorts of ways, but for some reason, and I think a lot of it driven by populism, the French have rejected him big style. matched

So you probably got to go back to... matched

Back to Chirac, really, for a French president that the French thought, like him or dislike him, I feel like he's our leader. matched

So I think then that opened that. matched

So once you've got a sense of leaders that the public don't respect, because the great thing that, I mean, I understand most of what Thatcher stood for, most of what she did, matched

But when Thatcher was prime minister, I didn't think it's ridiculous that she's the prime minister. matched

I think our politics has suffered massively from having, you know, we know who they are. matched

Certainly Johnson, certainly Truss. matched

Prime minister thinking, you know, it is ridiculous that they're our prime minister. matched

OK, and Johnson, of course, classic populist. matched

Absolutely. matched

When I said, you know, see a problem, how do I exploit it, not solve it? matched

I mean, that guy did not believe in Brexit. matched

And yet he was one of the prime deliverers of it because he saw a challenge, a problem for others. matched

How do I exploit it? matched

Because what was his big motivation? matched

Showing 41–60 of 805 · page 3 of 41