Alastair Campbell

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Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British writer, broadcaster, political advisor, and author.

He served as Tony Blair's spokeswoman and campaign manager (1994–1997), followed by Downing Street Press Secretary (1997–2000) for Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He later served as Downing Street's Director of Communications and Labour Party spokesperson (2000-2003).

During the Hutton Inquiry into David Kelly's death in August 2003, he resigned in August 2003.

In 2018, he published his 15th book. He is the editor of The New European and chief interviewer for GQ magazine.

He continues to act as both a strategist and an ambassador for Time To Change and other mental health charities.

He is an advisor to the People's Vote campaign, urging a public vote on the final Brexit contract.

Campbell has served as a freelance advisor to a number of government and political parties, including the Prime Minister of Albania, whose Socialist Party government won a landslide in 2013 Albania's capital.

Edi Rama was re-elected with a larger mandate in June 2017 and asked Campbell to continue serving as an advisor for his second term in office, "according to Party rules," he said on May 26th.

Campbell said he planned to appeal his dismissal.

Early life

Campbell was born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1957, the son of Scottish veterinary surgeon Donald Campbell and his wife Elizabeth. Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary clinic. Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from Tiree's island; his mother, Ayrshire, was from Ayrshire. Campbell grew up with two older brothers, Donald and Graeme, as well as Elizabeth, his younger sister.

He attended Bradford Grammar School for a brief period of time, then moved to City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages, French and German, for which he finished in first place (2:1). Campbell is an emeritus professor of media at Cambridge University.

Campbell spent time in Nice's secondary school as part of his academic degree program in the 1970s. During a trip back to Aix-en-Provence, he learned of Belgian singer Jacques Brel's death and shared tales with the Belgian lorry driver who had picked him up, sparking a lifelong fascination with Brel's music.

Campbell spent months at the Golden Nugget Casino on Shaftesbury Avenue, as well as practicing as a roulette dealer before being accepted as a trainee reporter with the Mirror Group Newspapers.

Inter-City Ditties was his first published work, and he was the winner of a readers' competition in Forum, Penthouse's journalistic counterpart to Penthouse magazine. This culminated in a long stint writing for the magazine with titles like "Busking with Bagpipes" and "The Riviera Gigolo," which were written in a way that was intended to compel readers to believe they were accounts of his own sexual exploits at the time.

Campbell spent a year at a local weekly paper before joining the Tavistock Times as the sports editor, penned a column titled 'Campbell's Corner.' It was during his time at the Tavistock Times that he met Fiona Millar, with whom he has three children; two sons (born November 1987 and 1989) and a niece, comedian Grace Campbell (born May 1994). However, his first major contribution to the news pages was reporting the Penlee lifeboat fire in December 1981, while a youth on the Plymouth-based Sunday Independent, which was later owned by Mirror Group Newspapers.

Personal life

Campbell has referred to himself as a "we don't do God" as one of his more popular soundbites. However, he was asked by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who had worked for GQ, to contribute to his book on the meaning of Christmas in late 2017.

Donald Campbell's older brother, who suffered with schizophrenia, died at the age of 62 due to complications resulting from his illness in August. Campbell has explored extensively how Donald, the Principal's official bagpiper at Glasgow University and a participant in high-level Piobaireachs competitions, inspired him to fight for improved mental health care and knowledge, as well as becoming the ambassador for numerous mental health charities.

When Campbell was a boy, he would cross the county boundary to Lancashire to watch Burnley F.C. With his father. In a column titled "Turf Moor Diaries" for the FanHouse UK football blog, he has been a lifelong Burnley supporter and writes about their exploits. He is regularly involved in club activities. He was instrumental in saving the club from potential bankruptcy and gained the help of several high-profile public figures. He was one of the founders of the University College of Football Business, which is based at Burnley's stadium. He is also a fan of Keighley Cougars Rugby League, it has been a childhood dream to play for the team.

Campbell plays the bagpipes to relieve anxiety in his spare time. In December 2017, a musical project he was involved in received the Na Trads traditional Scottish music awards. He appeared at a Glasgow concert earlier this year, but it was entirely by musicians with ties to Tiree. The Tiree Community Songbook was turned into a CD that received a Community Award at the Traditional Music Awards.

He is a keen runner, cyclist, swimmer, and triathlete. In 2003, he raised over half a million pounds for charity running the London Marathon. He discovered an interest in cold water swimming in his 60s.

He appeared on the bagpipes in a charity song written by Scottish band Skerryvore, Everyday Heroes, which reached the iTunes download charts within hours of being released. The National Health Service Charities COVID-19 Urgent Appeal received the majority of the proceeds from sales. Campbell serenading his next door neighbor, nurse Matilda Bridge, as she returns home from work, has millions of viewers and gathered worldwide notice. It started a trend of pipers playing around the country during weekly 'clap for the NHS' functions.

After being together for 42 years, he entered a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar on March 30, 2021. The couple have two sons and a daughter.

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Later career

Campbell served as Campaign Director for the Labour Party in the run-up to their third straight victory in the 2005 general election. Campbell served as an advisor to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband during the 2010 and 2015 general elections. Campbell was hired by Sir Clive Woodward to handle media relations with the public for the British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005. During the tour, Campbell wrote a column for The Times.

Campbell kept a notebook that allegedly totaled 2 million words during his time in Downing Street. On July 9, 2007 two selected extracts, titled The Blair Years, were published. Campbell's book's debut appeared in subsequent media reports, particularly in respect of Blair's relationship with his chancellor and successor Gordon Brown. Campbell said in the introduction to the book that he intended to have the diaries appear in fuller form and that he did not want to make life difficult for Brown in his current role as Prime Minister or to damage Labour Party.

He produced a series for The Times newspapers in 2003 and 2004, analyzing greatness in sport to answer the question, "Who is the greatest sports celebrity of all time?" Although Muhammad Ali's resignation was part of the process, he interviewed and profiled athletes from around the world, including Ian Botham, Nick Faldo, Ben Ainslie, Michael Phelps, Martina Navratilova, Shane Warne, Bobby Charlton, and Lance Armstrong. Campbell later said he "fell hook, line, and sinker" for the Armstrong legend. He continued to work with Armstrong, raising money for cancer charities, but Armstrong's nemesis David Walsh chastised him for being so generous and supporting him so vociferously. Walsh had been correct later, according to Campbell.

Campbell participated in Soccer Aid in 2006 and 2007, as part of the Rest of the World team. He appeared with Diego Maradona and Paul Gascoigne to raise funds for UNICEF.

He appeared on Comic Relief Does the Apprentice as the project's leader, and he had several clashes with Piers Morgan, including his expression "again?" Morgan was fired after being shot on social media, which went viral.

Campbell's own website and blog, as well as several pages on social networking websites, are available. He uses these forums to address British politics and other topics that are near to his heart. Campbell's anthologies and viewpoints have piqued media attention and ignited curiosity among a number of online communities, so far. In October 2008, he shared the personal story of his mental disorder in a television show partially to reduce the stigma of the condition. All in the Mind is the author of a book by David Mitchell.

Campbell appeared as a mentor in the BBC Two series The Speaker in April 2009, giving his tips on persuasive speaking.

Campbell debated Adam Boulton on Sky News about the 2010 general election, with the latter being limited to screaming over both Campbell and the show's host.

Campbell appeared on the BBC One political debate show Question Time on May 27, 2010. The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition would not allow a frontbench representative of the government to appear on the program unless Campbell was dropped at the beginning of the edition, according to host David Dimbleby. This was not allowed to be done by the BBC. Later this week, the government accused the BBC of behaving improperly for allowing Campbell to appear as a more detailed version of his diaries, according to a Downing Street spokesperson. "Campbell seems to be on because he's flogging a book next week" is not properly handled here, so the BBC hasn't behaving properly here." Campbell said he waited until Labour were in opposition before appearing on the show, and that the time was coincident because it was the only time he was free. The discord, according to him, was part of a largely anti-BBC project. Campbell, then-Chief Secretary to the Treasury, was the minister who had been scheduled to appear, although Campbell shared a snapshot of him during the show. Laws resigned his position as a result of rumors of possible fraud in his expenses, according to the Telegraph the day before.

Campbell was booed by the audience in July 2010, but the actor in a Reasonably Priced Car segment was 1:47.

Jamie's Dream School, a 2011 Channel Four television series, was also featured. In June 2012, he was a guest host on Have I Got News for You.

Campbell reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2011 with suspicions that his phone had been hacked by the News of the World in 2003. He suffered penalties for a part of his deal with Burnley FC's women's team.

Campbell appeared and narrated the BBC current affairs show Panorama, which was titled "Britain's Hidden Alcoholics."

Campbell made his first appearance in an acting role in a small part of an episode of BBC drama Accused in 2012.

Campbell joined Portland Communications in May 2012 as a former adviser to Tony Blair. Campbell, alongside Tony Blair, has also provided consulting services to Kazakhstan's government on "questions of social reformation."

Campbell announced in January 2014 that he would join British GQ for a short time to conduct interviews with experts from "politics, science, art, (and) other aspects of life that I find interesting," including Piers Morgan. Jose Mourinho, Raheem Sterling, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mario Balotelli, Mario Balotelli, Mo Farah, and Usain Bolt from the world of sport, as well as doing in-depth interviews with several other celebrities from public life, including Archbishop Justin Welby, Garry Kasparov, and Rachel Riley. He conducted an interview with Prince William in 2017. GQ began filming the interviews in March 2017 and then Tony Blair, beginning with an interview with Owen Jones and then Tony Blair. When Jeremy Corbyn was interviewed for the magazine in late 2017, he did so on the understanding that Campbell would not be the interviewer.

Campbell had joined the International Business Times in May 2016 as a columnist.

Campbell had been named editor-at-large by The New European in March 2017.

He and his daughter Grace, a comedian and feminist, had launched Football, Feminism, and Everything In Between, a series of interviews with celebrities from politics, sport, and other aspects of life in May 2019. Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, Kelly Holmes, and Maro Itoje were the first three people interviewed in Ed Miliband's first interview.

When government adviser Dominic Cummings broke government rules to visit Durham, England, Campbell advised his social media followers to write to all Tory MPs and request their permission, and he published a 50,000-word summary of what he referred to as 'Organized Hypocrisy' on his website based on his responses.

Campbell appeared on Good Morning Britain from 10 to 2021, where he appeared with Susanna Reid.

Talking Heads, a men's health magazine, began in January 2022 with a focus on mindset and well-being. Starting with England rugby player Maro Itoje and former sports critic Sebastian Coe, beginning with England rugby player Maro Itoje and former athlete turned sports politician Sebastian Coe.

Ex Tory Cabinet Minister Rory Stewart launched The Rest Is Politics, a new podcast, in March 2022. It became an instant hit, rising to the top of the Apple UK podcast charts by week 2 and prompting calls that he and Stewart form a new center ground team.

In which he vented his disapproving of Boris Johnson, he launched a regular series of 'Instagram live' broadcasts in which he spoke about him. He was an outspoken critic of Russia's annexation of Ukraine and the tory government's acceptance of oligarchs close to Putin in comparison to their 'cruel and shabby' treatment of Ukrainian refugees, who were subjected to a lot of red tape before being considered for exile. Tony Blair and I wrote a lengthy essay about his talks with Russian President Petro Poroshenko.

Campbell said immediately after the United Kingdom's referendum on membership in the European Union in June 2016 that he considered it "the worst decision he had made in his lifetime" and that he'd do whatever he could to change people's minds. In addition to establishing The New European, he was one of the first campaigners for a referendum on the outcome of the Brexit talks.

Campbell joined the People's Vote campaign in 2018, calling for a referendum on the Brexit contract. This included directing the development of campaign films, including one directed by and starring Grace, for which Campbell persuaded actor Richard Wilson to resurrect his most popular character, Victor Meldrew.

Campbell was on duty with the People's Vote campaign's planning and organising of a march on Parliament on October 20th, which attracted an estimated 250,000 people onto the streets in 2018. After the 2005 resistance against the Iraq war, the marche was dubbed the second biggest ever by the media.

On the day Boris Johnson called a rare Saturday session in Parliament to support his Brexit decision, he helped plan and spoke at a second march and rally attended by an estimated million people in October 2019.

Campbell was invited to speak at the French National Assembly with the newly elected MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's governing En Marche party, having met and advised Macron during the campaign. He advised the French people to be patient with the United Kingdom and to have the opportunity to change course and reverse Brexit. Macron had been braver than Tony Blair in establishing a new party and leading it to power in less than a year, according to him.

After Rudd unilaterally decided to sacked two key campaign employees on the eve of the 2019 UK general election, Campbell wrote a piece criticizing Open Britain's chairman, Roland Rudd.

In a BBC documentary called Cracking Up, Campbell's bout with depression was recalled. Since then, he has been a vocal promoter and promoter of the anti-stigma movement in mental health. Time to Change In November 2017, he was named an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his efforts in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health and promoting the importance of psychiatry.

Campbell appeared as a celebrity continuity announcer in the Mental Health Foundation's takeover of Channel Four for Mental Health Awareness Week 2017. Two years ago, he produced Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me, a documentary about living and dealing with depression. It was part of a BBC series bringing more attention to specific mental health problems.

He was appointed global ambassador to Australia's Mental Health in 2019, a new umbrella group aiming for improved services. On the Australian version of Question Time, Donald Trump and his allies were "sowing the seeds of fascism," he said.

He continued with the publication Living Well About His Depression.

Campbell resigned from the Labour Party after losing to the Liberal Democrats in the European elections last month, and he will appeal the decision. When compared to the treatment of Labour colleagues accused of anti-semitism, he questioned the speed of his expulsion. Shadow Minister Dawn Butler said in response that it was common knowledge that voting for another party would result in automatic expulsion.

He had been a long-serving supporter of Labour's Brexit policy and voted Liberal Democrat in the May 2019 European elections, despite the fact that he was a protester. He announced this after the polls had closed in interviews on television and radio broadcasting the results as they were published. He said he did so, as did several others, to convince Labour unequivocally to endorse a People's Vote. He was banned from the party two days later, by email, igniting a widespread media storm in which several other Labour members outed themselves as having voted for groups other than Labour, including Cherie Blair, Charles Clarke, Bob Ainsworth, and Betty Boothroyd. On Twitter, ordinary people expressed their love for Campbell. #ExpelMeToo became a trend. He appealed immediately, arguing that tactical voting was not a violation of the rule under which he had been suspended, and that if any others who had behaved like him were dismissed, he might have a complaint of discrimination. Tom Watson, Labour's deputy leader, described the resignation as "spiteful" and a number of senior MPs called for the decision to be reversed and an amnesty of all those who voted against Labour in the European elections.

Campbell penned a 3,500-word open letter to Jeremy Corbyn in July 2019, saying he no longer wanted to be re-admitted to the party despite legal advice that he would win a court fight against his dismissal. Corbyn begged on Corbyn to resign, citing his "failure" on Brexit, antisemitism, broader policy, and "over all the inability to formulate and execute a plan. The article was broken in The Guardian and The New European's full letter was published in The New European. Corbyn said he was "disappointed," causing Campbell to ask why he had been banned.

Campbell voted Labour in the 2019 general election, despite being part of a botched electoral attempt aimed at preventing Johnson from winning a majority.

Campbell launched The Rest is Politics podcast with Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and candidate in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership race. Both the pair discuss current news and reminisce about their former careers.

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