Alastair Campbell

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316 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 207. Gordon Brown: How to Fix a Fracturing World · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

You know, I just think we've got to use them better. matched

but interesting on that. matched

The g the the antidote to that is this book I mean the Gordon was never a massive well, he l he was interested in polling, but this book, polling is at the heart of it, this massive global poll. matched

And added to which, one of the things I really like about this book is that he does weave in and out of the local and the global. matched

One of the best chapters is actually about Kakotti. matched

So No but but it it's inevitable 'cause the other thing with politicians, you can see this, he didn't want to say anything that allowed anybody to listen to this and pick up Gordon Brown tells Burnham to X. matched

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I and I think all former Prime Ministers feel that. matched

That they don't necessarily want to get some of them want to, like Ted Heath used to with Thatcher. matched

But most of them, the good ones, I think I'm not saying Ted Heath wasn't good in lots of ways, but they they don't want to be just be judged by matched

By what they're saying to so when I said has Andy Burnham got his, yes, of course he has. matched

He'd have said that about any Labour Prime Minister. matched

Sure. matched

Because um because I'll be honest, I've been, you know, as you say, it's taken us it's taken us a long time to persuade him to come in. matched

I think he'll be pleased and relieved that we did actually just talk about big stuff. matched

You don't think I blew up with my laptop? matched

Uh which I thought was a very, very good question and nicely framed. matched

But uh how would you have answered that just to finish? matched

So the the the question Well I would have answered it differently too. matched

I wasn't surprised that he answered the way he did. matched

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