Alastair Campbell

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

that in some of these situations, and a lot of this goes to the conflict and the tension you sometimes get between the promises you make and the nature of the promise in which the public expect you to make them. matched

And the reality of the complexity of life. matched

Well, you can have a debate about what the country has become and what the country is becoming. matched

So for example, I'll give you an example. matched

I was in France last week in the French World Cup team. matched

Now, France has got its own populist politicians, left and right. matched

Melenchon on the left, in particular, and Le Pen and Bardella on the right. matched

i would argue that racial integration has been less successful in france than it has here um and yet they have the team that when's this going out before the final or not before after after okay so then the final of the world cup well not before before okay so then they have the the football team that may by the time this goes out be on its way to winning the world cup um matched

what how many players did they have the other day in the in the lineup one white player in the starting lineup uh the last game they played that is I I look at that and I think France should be really proud of that a lot of people I know in France look at that and think that's not France okay so you can have different debate about what you think your country represents what again what I'll accept matched

is and i can remember having massive arguments at the time when we we were i talked about you know we wanted to get peter into the g8 we wanted enlargement in the european union we were a big supporter of enlargement i think enlargement was a good thing to do um now unintended consequences we i can remember having huge fights in briefings that i did i can remember one in particular almost came to blows matched

because we were relying, as you do in government, on an assessment of how many are experts and, you know, and they're clever people and they study data and all that sort of stuff. matched

And they were suggesting that, I can't remember what the numbers were, but X number of polls, X number of this, X number of that would come to work in Britain. matched

Massively undressing. matched

Well, is that right? matched

Which, well, I might have seen different pages. matched

I can't remember the numbers. matched

We can fact check it, but it was that order of difference. matched

But I'm talking about the advice that we were getting. matched

Was that underestimated? matched

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