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

If you go back to John Major. matched

I wonder if one of the roles for former presidents, former prime ministers, isn't to do a lot of the legwork on this. matched

It's it's very interesting. matched

He r he's got a passage in the book where he talked about the I can't remember the exact number, but the the massive bestseller that the Beveridge Report came. matched

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People reading it. matched

Now we're not in that sort of world anymore, but I think if somebody outside day to day politics, dealing with the twenty four seven media, etcetera, were to put together a group of people, not just politicians, with the brief to matched

to create the space for a middle power, new infrastructure. matched

That basically in its messaging, we can't rely on America, we don't we don't particularly want China. matched

Great if they want to get involved in some of the arguments, but anybody else? matched

I th I could see that you remember the the Nelson Mandela elders group? matched

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That a sort of bigger version of that. matched

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And I could see somebody like Gordon playing matched

Or with others. matched

You know, look at the Malcolm Turnbull in Australia, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd. matched

I mean, they're all there are so many matched

Because politicians are becoming leaders younger, they're leaving younger. matched

And you've got all this experience and thought and analysis and matched

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