Alastair Campbell
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Well, if you haven't seen my speech on behalf of Keir Starmer about the BBC, which we did when we were on tour, I strongly recommend it.
And how's your campaign for becoming director general?
How's that going?
I think as an on startup, I've got to tell you, Rory, yesterday I watched some of the evidence of the DCMS committee of the BBC executives, but I found it very, very frustrating on many levels.
So I gave up.
And while I was then, went off and do something else.
And I started to get these messages saying, they're talking about you at the DCMS committee.
I thought, oh, great.
Somebody's decided they should throw my head, my name into the ring.
But in fact, what it was, was Robbie Gibb,
Theresa May's former communications director was being asked how he thought the Conservative Party would react if Keir Starmer appointed Alastair Campbell to the board of the BBC.
And Robbie Gibbs' reply was a bit of a sort of faux humility at the start.
He said, well, I don't think I was as good at my job as Alastair was at his.
And in any event, I'd worked for the BBC for a very, very long time.
But it's a good question.
I've actually had, since saying half in jest on tour that I'd like to be the director general...