Alastair Campbell

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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.

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

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And the what what should have been happening and to be fair, I think Alistair Darling did a pretty good job on this, but there should have been other people around. matched

Who were doing the sort of communication he's talking that's the first time really that I've heard him say that though. matched

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I mean that is a problem. matched

When he came in he was saying, What are these live events you're doing? matched

you know and he said and you said, Yeah, well we did the O two. matched

You said, What, fifteen thousand people? matched

How did you do that? matched

How do you communicate to fifteen thousand people in the same space? matched

And the truth is, you communicate in exactly the same way as if you communicated to ten people. matched

But I think he a little bit like Keir Starmer actually, I don't think he enjoyed matched

the modern stuff of politics, the stuff that I'm afraid you do have to do. matched

You know, if if you're a political leader today and you're not really mastering social media or having people who do it for you, you you've got a problem. matched

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He hates it. matched

He may have forgotten, but uh one of my low points in his communications director and press secretary was when I in a briefing I inserted Tony Blair into a storyline in Correlation Street. matched

he might have not forgotten that as well. matched

But this is where life gets really difficult and complicated. matched

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