Alastair Campbell

speaker

316 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard yesterday

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

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

yeah, because if you're saying look, you know, your podcast and your your broadcast I love the way it talks about your programme and your broadcast. matched

You talk about big ideas and then but you know, at the end the audio talked about personalities and it's not important. matched

Yeah. matched

And but of course friendships and personalities and relationships are important. matched

And if I track back so matched

Because I'm so closely identified with Tony Blair. matched

People probably aren't aware that when the two of them got elected first off, I was much closer to Gordon. matched

Right. matched

He he was the senior of the two. matched

Yeah. matched

He was therefore from a journalistic perspective in a way more interesting. matched

Yep. matched

Uh I worked on The Mirror. matched

He had a he had a weekly column on the Daily Record, which I used to help him write. matched

And when I talked about working with Gordon on speech as articles, he's you know, he's just relentless and sort of never gives up and so he's he's he's a stressful guy to work with. matched

And then of course I think there was there's no doubt getting away from this. matched

I I I don't think he's ever fully forgiven me. matched

for backing Tony Blair. matched

Not backing Tony Blair, but in nineteen ninety four, expressing my journalistic strongly held view that Tony would win the leadership election if there were one. matched

And Gordon would have expected matched

Showing 61–80 of 316 · page 4 of 16