Alastair Campbell

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

And Gordon, First Step, Bank of England Independence, we did pretty well in the economy for quite a long time. matched

And so as that was happening, part of what we were showing matched

was an understanding of the way the global economy was changing, adapting, and we have to adapt to that as well. matched

And I sometimes worried, and I said this at the time, I'm not sure we're educating people enough matched

about the potential downside of globalisation alongside the evident upside from which we're benefiting right now. matched

And I think that was a problem. matched

I think, I mean, I cannot pretend to be an expert in financial services regulation, but I know that I think there are people who were experts at that time and who were doing the policy at the time who think that maybe we didn't regulate carefully enough. matched

But again, you've got to understand that we as a leftist centre government, a Labour government, matched

We were kind of always conscious of the fact that we're going to get accused of being over-regulatory. matched

And so maybe we didn't regulate enough on that. matched

But I agree with you. matched

I'm agreeing with the premise. matched

I think that the crash was the big driver. matched

But I think in the American context, you go back even further. matched

I think you go back to American-Chinese relationships. matched

That's what happened. matched

I don't think we'd disagree that much. matched

I mean, I think that what I'm trying to do is to give you an understanding of the motivations for the policies they were pursuing at the time. matched

Yeah, okay. matched

But then you have to then at the same time enunciate what the policy otherwise would have been. matched

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