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

Absolutely accept that. matched

Did that lead to problems related to community cohesion? matched

Yeah, it did in some places. matched

In other places, it didn't. matched

But did it lead to, and I know you're going to disagree with this because you're going to say I'm doing the same thing as saying the problem isn't the problem, it's the consequences. matched

But did the immigration debate within our politics become swamped with exaggerated figures, exaggerated consequences? matched

I think it did. matched

It's that, I think, as much as the numbers that fueled the problems we have now. matched

So, for example, you take an issue like, you know, live very, very recently, the whole, you know, the grooming gangs issue. matched

Terrible, terrible, terrible problem. matched

Lots of mistakes made along the way. matched

But the way that it's now become identified purely, virtually purely within our debate is an issue of Muslims, as opposed to some of the worst grooming gangs being white people in white communities. matched

I think that is a problem. matched

And of course, it's very, very hard. matched

Well, who's the worst grooming gang? matched

I want to have a debate where we can actually say, these are real problems. matched

Once you've got a politics that's been defined through a certain prism, and the prism at the moment, because of our media, because of people like Farage and so forth, it's defined in a certain way, I think that's what I mean about the problem becomes worse. matched

You used the phrase there, reasonable debate. matched

I know who Sarah Champion is, and I know what she was trying to do. matched

And I also accept, I do agree with you, that there have been times, probably particularly when it's been related to race, but also I think we're seeing it in other issues. matched

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