Alistair Campbell

Oh, depends when the life would be.

I think I would, yeah.

I think I would.

I think if I was young now,

If I was 25, 30 now, I think I would definitely choose politics, yeah.

Because I think it matters now, possibly more than ever.

In fact, I mentioned the Redford Book Festival.

There was a very interesting and quite moving question from...

a woman who said that she was standing for Labour in a local, a parish council election, parish council.

And she said she was getting abuse.

She was getting online threats.

She was beginning to wonder whether she should be doing it.

And she said she was having to answer for every single thing that the Labour government was being criticised for.

You know, she's standing for the parish council and people are saying, you know, what about this in the Middle East?

And why aren't you doing more about this in Africa?

I want to be your parish councillor.

And she said to me, what advice do you have?

And I said, well, don't look at the stuff online and just, you know, try to focus on the good that you can do.

But it's bloody hard these days.

And it's, by the way, we're coming up, Rory, to the, I know you were a friend of Jo Cox, as was I. We're coming up to the 10th anniversary of her death.