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Alastair Campbell | |
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Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson | |
In office 2 May 1997 – 15 July 2000 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Godric Smith |
Personal details | |
Born | Alastair John Campbell 25 May 1957 City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School |
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA) |
Occupation |
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Known for | The Rest is Politics |
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Website | www |
Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster and activist, known for his political roles during
Campbell was Political Editor at the Daily Mirror newspaper in the 1980s and of Today in the 1990s. He is the editor-at-large of The New European and chief interviewer for GQ. He acts as a consultant strategist and as an ambassador for Time to Change and other mental health charities. He was an adviser to the People's Vote campaign, campaigning for a public vote on the final Brexit deal. Since his work for Blair, Campbell has continued to act as a freelance advisor to a number of governments and political parties, including Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania.[1]
In 2022 he launched the podcast
Education and early life
Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, son of Scottish veterinary surgeon Donald Campbell and his wife Elizabeth.[4][5] Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice.[6] Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from the island of Tiree; his wife was from Ayrshire.[7] Campbell grew up with two older brothers, Donald and Graeme, and a younger sister, Elizabeth.
He attended
Journalism
Following graduation from Cambridge, he joined the
In 1982, Campbell moved to the London office of the
In 1986, while accompanying MP Neil Kinnock on a tour of Scotland, Campbell had a nervous breakdown. Campbell stayed in Ross Hall Hospital, a private BMI hospital in Glasgow. Over the next five days as an in-patient, he was given medication to calm him. After seeing a psychiatrist, he realised that he had an alcohol problem. Campbell said that from that day onwards he counted each day that he did not drink alcohol, and did not stop counting until he had reached thousands.[10] He experienced a period of depression and he was reluctant to seek further medical help. He eventually cooperated with treatment from his family doctor.[10]
Campbell returned to the Daily Mirror, where he eventually became political editor.[10] He was a close adviser to MP Neil Kinnock, and Daily Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell. Shortly after Maxwell drowned in November 1991, Campbell punched The Guardian journalist Michael White after White joked about "Captain Bob, Bob, Bob...bobbing" in the Atlantic Ocean, referring to where the tycoon's body had been recovered.[11] Campbell later put this down to stress over uncertainty as to whether he and his colleagues would lose their jobs.[12][13] After leaving the Daily Mirror in 1993, Campbell became political editor of Today.
Politics and government
In 1994, shortly after Tony Blair was elected as
When Labour won
BBC documentary maker
Campbell was part of the core team that conducted the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and he has been honoured by several Irish universities for his role in the peace process. He became a close friend of Martin McGuinness, and attended his funeral in 2017. McGuinness helped Campbell with a novel which had an Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit as part of the plot.
Campbell was seconded to overhaul the communications of NATO during the Kosovo War, when US President Bill Clinton feared NATO was losing the propaganda war against the Slobodan Milošević regime. The general in charge of the military operation, Wesley Clark, credited Campbell with bringing order and discipline to NATO communications, and freeing the military to do its job.
Campbell became a central figure in the handling of the aftermath of
He oversaw Blair's successful
Iraq War
In the run-up to the
On 29 May 2023,
A Channel 4 interview[23] the Guardian called 'infamous' even 20 years later,[24] and forcefully written diary entries made public in the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly[25] saw the resignation of Campbell during the inquiry,[26] then, upon publication of its findings, the resignation of both the Chair of the BBC Gavyn Davies as well as its Director-General Greg Dyke and, eventually, the resignation of Andrew Gilligan himself. The BBC's online history of itself describes it as "one of the most damaging episodes in the BBC's history".[21] After his resignation, a complete overhaul of the Prime Minister's press office was suggested in internal government documents, as the press office was seen as to have "lost all credibility as a reliable, truthful, objective operation".[24]
Neither a
Another view has been offered by Biljiana Scott, as early as 2004. She suggested that an accessible explanation for the incident can be found by examining the parties' differing professional cultures.[22] Kelly sought to communicate scientific truth, Gilligan sought to communicate the government's lacking argument, and Campbell sought to communicate the case for war in the most convincing way available.
Later in 2003, commenting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Campbell said, "Come on, you don't seriously think we won't find anything?".[29] Even years later he was genuinely convinced of there being a case for war.[24]
In 2013, in a speech Campbell gave in Australia, he argued that there had always been "spin" and propaganda, but that there was more pressure to tell the truth 'today' than there was during the second world war. He went on to claim that Tony Blair had "greater commitment to wartime truth than Winston Churchill".[30]
Later career
Campbell worked again for the Labour Party as Campaign Director in the run-up to their third consecutive victory at the 2005 general election. Campbell also acted as an adviser to
Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some 2 million words. Selected extracts, titled The Blair Years, were published on 9 July 2007. Subsequent press coverage of the book's release included coverage of what Campbell had chosen to leave out, particularly in respect of the relationship between Blair and his chancellor and successor Gordon Brown. Campbell expressed an intention to one day publish the diaries in fuller form, and indicated in the introduction to the book that he did not wish to make matters harder for Brown in his new role as Prime Minister, or to damage the Labour Party.[citation needed]
In 2003 and 2004, he wrote a series for The Times newspapers, analysing greatness in sports to answer the question "Who is the greatest sports star of all time?" Although his conclusion was Muhammad Ali, as part of the process, he interviewed and profiled sports stars from around the world, including Ian Botham, Nick Faldo, Ben Ainslie, Michael Phelps, Martina Navratilova, Shane Warne, Alex Ferguson, Bobby Charlton and Lance Armstrong. Campbell later said that he "fell hook, line and sinker" for the Armstrong legend. He subsequently worked with Armstrong, campaigning for cancer charities, but drew criticism from Armstrong's nemesis David Walsh for being so supportive and defending him so passionately. Campbell later said that Walsh had been right.[citation needed]
Campbell has his own website and blog, as well as several pages on other social media websites.[31] He uses these platforms to discuss British politics and other topics close to his heart. So far, Campbell's commentaries and views have garnered media attention and generated interest among various online communities. In October 2008, he broadcast the personal story of his mental illness in a television documentary partly to reduce the stigma of that illness.[10] He has written a novel on the subject entitled All in the Mind.
Campbell made his first appearance on the BBC One political discussion programme
In 2011, Campbell contacted the
In May 2012, Campbell took a role at PR agency Portland Communications, at the invitation of Tim Allan, a former adviser to Tony Blair.[34][35] Along with Tony Blair, Campbell has also provided consultancy services to the government of Kazakhstan on "questions of social economic modernisation."[36][37][38]
Return to journalism
In January 2014, Campbell announced that he was joining British
In May 2016, the International Business Times announced that Campbell had joined it as a columnist.[42]
In March 2017, the newspaper The New European announced that it had appointed Campbell as editor-at-large.[43]
In May 2019, he announced that he and his daughter Grace, a comedian and feminist, had launched a joint podcast, Football, Feminism and Everything In Between: a series of interviews with figures from politics, sport and other walks of life. Their first interview was with Ed Miliband, followed by Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, Kelly Holmes and Maro Itoje.[44]
When Government Adviser Dominic Cummings broke government guidelines to visit Durham, England, Campbell urged his social media followers to write to all Tory MPs asking for their view and published a 50,000-word analysis of what he called 'Organised Hypocrisy' on his website based on the responses he collated.[45]
Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, where he presented with Susanna Reid.[46]
In January 2022 Campbell began a series of interviews for Men's Health called Talking Heads, with a focus on mindset and well-being. This started with England rugby player Maro Itoje and former athlete turned sports politician Sebastian Coe.[47]
In March 2022, Campbell launched
In May 2023 he published his eighteenth book, But What Can I Do?, a call to arms to people to get more engaged in politics and to fight back against the wave of populism, polarisation and post-truth. It went to No 1 in the
Campbell has launched a regular series of 'Instagram live' broadcasts, in which he vented his criticisms of
People's Vote campaign
Immediately after the UK's referendum on membership of the European Union in June 2016, Campbell stated that he thought it was "the worst decision Britain had made in his lifetime" and would do what he could to change people's minds. In addition to establishing The New European, he was one of the early movers in the People's Vote campaign for a referendum on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations.[50]
In 2018 Campbell became part of the top table team at the People's Vote campaign fighting for a referendum on the Brexit deal. This included overseeing the production of campaign films, including one written by and starring his daughter Grace, called The Brexit Special, for which Campbell persuaded actor Richard Wilson to revive his most famous character, Victor Meldrew.[51]
In 2018 Campbell worked for the People's Vote campaign's planning and organisation of a march on Parliament on 20 October, which drew an estimated 250,000 people[52] onto the streets. The march was described by the media as the second biggest ever, after the protest against the Iraq war in 2003.
He helped organize and spoke at a second march and rally attended by an estimated million people in October 2019, on the day that Boris Johnson called a rare Saturday sitting in Parliament to back his Brexit deal.
In July 2017, he was invited to speak at the
Campbell wrote a piece criticising the chairman of
Mental health activism
Campbell's experience with depression was recalled in a BBC documentary titled Cracking Up.[56] He has since then been a prominent supporter and advocate for the mental health anti-stigma campaign Time to Change.[57][58] In November 2017, he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his work in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness and promoting the importance of psychiatry.[59][60]
Campbell took part in the
In 2019, he was appointed global ambassador to Australians for Mental Health, a new umbrella organisation fighting for better services. He made numerous media appearances and caused controversy by saying on the Australian version of Question Time, that Donald Trump and fellow populists were "sowing the seeds of fascism".[62]
Expulsion from Labour Party
On 28 May 2019, Campbell announced that he had been expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the
He was a long-standing critic of Labour's Brexit strategy and in the May 2019 European elections, he voted for the Liberal Democrats as a protest vote. He announced this after the polls had closed in interviews on TV and radio covering the results as they came in. He said he did so, in common with many others, to persuade Labour unequivocally to back a People's Vote. Two days later, by email, he was expelled from the Party, a move which provoked a major media storm in which many other Labour members outed themselves as having voted for parties other than Labour, including
In July 2019, in the week Boris Johnson became prime minister, Campbell penned a 3,500-word open letter to Jeremy Corbyn saying he no longer wished to be re-admitted to the party despite legal advice saying he would win a court case against his expulsion. He called on Corbyn to step down and cited his "failure" on Brexit, antisemitism, broader policy and "above all the failure to develop and execute a strategy". The story was broken in The Guardian and the full letter published in The New European. Corbyn said he was "disappointed", prompting Campbell to ask why he had been expelled.[69][70]
Campbell voted Labour in the 2019 general election, having been part of a failed tactical voting campaign aimed at preventing Johnson from winning a majority.[64][71]
Personal life
He entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years.[72] The couple have two sons and a daughter, the comedian Grace Campbell.[73][74]
Campbell's older brother Donald had schizophrenia. He died in 2006 at the age of 62 from complications resulting from his illness. Campbell has talked extensively about how Donald had inspired him to fight for better mental health services and understanding, and to become the ambassador for several mental health charities.[75][76]
Campbell is a lifelong Burnley supporter. He is regularly involved in events with the club and was involved in rescuing the club from potential bankruptcy. He was one of the founders of the University College of Football Business, based at Burnley's stadium.[77] He is also a fan of the rugby league club Keighley Cougars, as it had been a childhood dream of his to play for the team.[78]
In his spare time, Campbell plays the bagpipes to relieve stress. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he performed on the bagpipes in a charity song written by Martin Gillespie of Scottish band Skerryvore, "Everyday Heroes", which topped the iTunes download charts. [79][80] Campbell has an interest in the music of the Belgian singer Jacques Brel.[81]
He is a keen runner, cyclist, swimmer and
Stage and screen portrayals
Campbell has been cited as the inspiration for the character of Malcolm Tucker in the BBC political satire comedy The Thick of It. [84]
Television appearances
In 2006 and 2007, Campbell took part in
Campbell appeared as a mentor in the BBC Two series The Speaker in April 2009, offering his advice on persuasive speaking.[85]
Campbell appeared on BBC's
He also took part in the 2011
Campbell presented and narrated the 20 February 2012 edition of the BBC current affairs programme
In 2012, Campbell made his first appearance in an acting role with a small part in an episode of the BBC drama Accused.[88]
In November 2021 Campbell was featured in the BBC series
In May 2022 it was announced that Campbell would appear in the Channel 4 political entertainment series Make Me Prime Minister, due to broadcast at the end of September 2022.[90][91]
In May 2023, Campbell was involved in a heated debate with Alex Phillips, a member of Reform UK, on BBC Newsnight. Phillips later accused Campbell of "bullying, intimidation and thinly veiled misogyny". He later apologised to the presenter, Victoria Derbyshire, for his behaviour.[92]
Honours
- He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) on 6 November 2017.[93][94]
- He was awarded the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage by the Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin on 16 October 2019.[95]
- He has on a number of occasions turned down the opportunity to sit in the House of Lords. In 2010, Gordon Brown offered him a senior ministerial position alongside a peerage, but Campbell is a long-standing opponent of the House of Lords.
Published books
- ISBN 0-09-192578-9[99]
- ISBN 0-09-193087-1[100]
- Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994–1997 (2010). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-179726-8
- Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People 1997–1999 (2011). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-949346-2
- Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility 1999–2001 (2012). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-949347-0
- The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq (2013). Arrow. ISBN 978-0-09-951473-2(volume four, 2001–2003)
- The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness (2012). Arrow. ISBN 0-09-957982-0
- My Name Is... (2013). Arrow. ISBN 0-09-9588196[101]
- The Irish Diaries 1994–2003 (2013). ISBN 9781843514008[102]
- Winners: And How They Succeed (2015). Pegasus. ISBN 1605988804
- Diaries Volume Five: Outside, Inside 2003–2005 (2016). Biteback. ISBN 978-1-78590-061-7
- Diaries Volume Six: From Blair to Brown 2005–2007 (2017) Biteback. ISBN 9781785900846
- Saturday Bloody Saturday (2018) Orion. ISBN 9781409174561
- Diaries Volume Seven: From Crash to Defeat 2007–2010. Biteback. 2018. ISBN 9781785900853.
- Campbell, Alastair (3 September 2020). Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression. John Murray. ISBN 9781529331844.
- Campbell, Alastair (February 2021). Diaries Volume Eight: Rise and Fall of the Olympic Spirit, 2010–2015. Biteback. ISBN 9781785900860.
- Campbell, Alastair (May 2023). But What Can I Do? Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It. Cornerstone. ISBN 9781529153330.
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Cited works
- Scott, Biljana (2004). Slavik, Hannah (ed.). "A Clash of Professional Cultures: The David Kelly Affair" (PDF). Intercultural Communication and Diplomacy. DiploFoundation. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
Further reading
- Jones, Nicholas (2000). Sultans of Spin: The Media and the New Labour Government. Orion Books. ISBN 0-7528-2769-3.
- ISBN 1-84513-001-4
- ISBN 0-14-027850-8.
- ISBN 0-7432-3212-7.
External links
- Official website – official site
- Alastair Campbell article archive at The Guardian
- Alastair Campbell article archive at Journalisted
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Alastair Campbell at IMDb
- Alastair Campbell collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Alastair Campbell collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Alastair Campbell profile at BBC News, 29 August 2003