Alastair Campbell

I think we'd lost that.

We'd lost the 24 election.

I think a lot of people around him got very, very panicky.

We made bad decisions through the campaign, lead up to the campaign, which really, really didn't help.

I think Liz became so driven by wanting to prove a point.

that she lost track of some of the fundamentals of politics.

And what was the point?

Well, the point she wanted to make is, you've laughed at me my whole career, but look at now, I'm prime minister now, and I'm going to do the things that you told me were impossible.

And she set about... And the thing with her, she did two...

Things simultaneously, which were contradictory.

One, she advocated a big reduction of taxation in order to get the economy rolling.

And then at the same time, a massive, incredibly expensive fiscal support package.

And you can't do both.

You can either tax...

So the big advantage I had was it all moved so quickly.

I was never really asked to do that.

So day three in my job as foreign secretary, Her Late Majesty the Queen died and we went straight into Operation London Bridge.

We went straight from Operation London Bridge into the UN General Assembly, went straight from the UN General Assembly to Abe Shinzo's funeral.

And I was flying back from the Far East

as the wheels were falling off the British economy.