Alastair Campbell

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316 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

Alastair Campbell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 206. How Putin's War Changed Finland Forever (Sanna Marin) · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

And she was the one who took this huge step, something she'd never agreed with before until the in full on invasion of Ukraine, to take NATO into Finland. voice-verified

I just think that's you know, in the end, politics should be about big things. voice-verified

And as you say, we didn't want to talk about, you know, videos of her dancing and all we talked about a bit, but actually to bring the Prime Minister of a small country. voice-verified

that take such a huge step. voice-verified

And also to being a leader of a country which, you know, we the old cliche punches above your weight. voice-verified

Finland does. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

They do uh the one of the things I love about the Northern European countries, they love their statues, don't they? voice-verified

I mean that war we we had a walk from a hotel to a conference centre, which was what, about ten, fifteen minutes? voice-verified

There were a good half a dozen, really, really. voice-verified

could interest these statues on route. voice-verified

So no and I think I think her personal background is interesting. voice-verified

I'll tell you the other thing that that about her that 'cause she's she's now involved in the Tony Blair Institute and no doubt doing lots of other things as well. voice-verified

But when you become Prime Minister at thirty four, in a world where prime ministerial churn is fairly regular, where there aren't going to be many Angela Merkel's in the in the coming generation. voice-verified

That means you're out of office, you know, very, very young. voice-verified

She was out of office before getting into her forties. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I thought she she was interesting and and you know, this is a lot of what Tony's trying to do as well, is how do you build the arguments for the progressive left and centre left against right wing populism? voice-verified

And particularly when she was talking about climate. voice-verified

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