Alastair Campbell

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

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

What I think they should do, and I hope will do, is actually to focus far more. matched

So, for example, in education, matched

and to be fair to bridget i think she's tried to do this but i don't think that that she's really cut through on it it is actually to be saying look we really haven't we've got to be open about the extent of the problem with white working-class kids and this is how we're going to try and try to address it so you do have to engage more with both of the kids and their parents on that i think in relation to to you know the community we're all we're all very kind of local in the way we live our lives most people are it's about their communities and i think you've you've really got to understand why people feel matched

that when they see their dirty streets, when they are aware of low-level crime, when they're aware of a high street that used to be kind of vibrant, but then what you can't do is say, that's because we've left you behind. matched

I think you've also got to confront people with the reality of the choices that we all make. matched

So for example, the high street, to me, matched

and the sort of mess that it's in it's a consequence of all sorts of things but one of them is the fact that we spend all our time on the bloody internet buying on amazon another one is that we've liberalized gambling to an extent that is off the scale so there's these gambling shops everywhere you've got the vapes and then you've got the charity shops matched

because charity has become such a fundamental part of delivering basic public services. matched

So you've got to be addressing all of the issues that have led to something that everybody's sitting in their community thinking, I don't like the look of this. matched

I don't like the feel of this. matched

So we're agreeing as well. matched

Well, I think one of the really important roles of a political leader that's not been played very well for quite a long time matched

is that and this this i don't want this to sound patronizing it's not meant to but i think one of the roles of the political leader is to is to educate the public totally about the reasons why decisions are being made i think we've got to and that used to do that tony used to do that okay clinton used to do that uh reagan used to do that now in a very kind of folksy sort of way but you you it's you you set out matched

big arguments about why things are as they are. matched

Now, in the knowledge that, you'll do that by possibly making a 60-minute speech, doing a 60-minute interview, writing a book. matched

In the knowledge that that is going to get distilled into that on social media, that by one opponent, that by another. matched

You've got to be bigger and better than all of that. matched

Yeah, it's hard. matched

And even though Trump is a nightmare, and I hate most of what he stands for, matched

He has at least shown a way of how you can message. matched

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