
Alastair Campbell
17 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Sunak is no different from his predecessors

Where is the “integrity and accountability” the prime minister promised?
Read the full article10 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Don’t buy into Sunak’s election distraction tactics

The sooner the prime minister calls an election, the better
Read the full article03 January 2024
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Farewell Jacques Delors

Delors’ political vision was spot on for the time, just as it is now
Read the full article20 December 2023
Alastair Campbell’s heroes and villains of 2023

Our diarist gives his personal rundown of who has been good – and who has been bad – over the last 12 months
Read the full article14 December 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The remarkable Glenys Kinnock

The Kinnock family and the Labour party have lost a matriarch
Read the full article06 December 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Farewell Glenys Kinnock and Alistair Darling

Their passing has marked a sad week for the entire Labour family
Read the full article01 December 2023
My friend Alistair Darling

He was a better politician than he ever knew
Read the full article29 November 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Imagine if Boris Johnson had backed Remain…

Instead he chose the path to No 10 and we are all paying the price
Read the full article22 November 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Cameron is not the answer to Sunak’s problems

The prime minister clearly hoped Cameron’s heft would prevent him becoming a source of division
Read the full article15 November 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Brexit forever changed Irish politics

It is hard to overestimate the damage the combination of Brexit, Johnson and Truss has done
Read the full article08 November 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The findings of the Covid inquiry merit real punishment

The damage Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings did to the country is off the scale
Read the full article24 October 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The uplifting school which would take Farage to his breaking point

An academy where 85% of pupils have English as a second language found engaged, informed children with high aspirations and plenty of questions
Read the full article18 October 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: What Yuval Noah Harari can teach us about Israel and Gaza

Harari believes prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu should accept responsibility, vow to see the crisis through, and then go
Read the full article11 October 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: What Labour should do next

This week, Keir Starmer needed to show, in policy terms, how life in Britain would change if he became prime minister
Read the full article04 October 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: For Labour, it’s all to play for

Polling suggests that a victory for the party at the next general election could be anything from a coalition to a landslide
Read the full article27 September 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Rishi Sunak brought the Tories to a new low

Sunak's U-turn on the environment makes Boris Johnson and Liz Truss appear honest and capable
Read the full article20 September 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The most brutal speech I ever heard

We need more great oratory in Westminster, not less
Read the full article13 September 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Westminster’s back-to-school omnishambles

London’s school-run traffic is reminiscent of a Tory government that takes a long time to get nowhere
Read the full article06 September 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Mental health is a vote-winner

A clear plan from Labour on how to repair the damage the Tories have done to our mental health services will reap enormous political dividends
Read the full article30 August 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Vladimir Putin’s belligerence must not be underestimated

The world, including myself, missed tell-tale signs that Putin was the murder machine and enemy of liberal democracies he’s proved to be
Read the full article23 August 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Real journalism is in decline

The Michelle Mone PPE scandal is a test of trust in modern democracy and needs to be at the forefront of media attention
Read the full article09 August 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Brexiteers won’t talk about the B-word

If Brexit was going well, we would never hear the end of it. Instead, there's an omertà on the subject
Read the full article02 August 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: We have not had a serious media in the UK for years

Instead, we have dumbed-down political and commercial interests masquerading as purveyors of news, lurching from one spasm to another
Read the full article26 July 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Vote tactically to get rid of the Tories

Only Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak can be PM after the next election. If you want to see the back of the Conservatives you need to vote Labour
Read the full article19 July 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Tories’ silence on the climate crisis says it all

Across Europe, only Turkey has a higher respiratory death rate than the UK, but the government doesn’t appear to care
Read the full article12 July 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The NHS deserves better than this Tory government

As Labour left office in 2010, the NHS had the highest satisfaction ratings in its history. Today, ratings and morale could barely be lower
Read the full article04 July 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: To undo the damage, we need to understand WHY people voted for Brexit

The key to winning Leave voters over to our side is not to tell them they were wrong, but that the liars in charge let them down. And the dial is shifting
Read the full article23 June 2023
Alastair Campbell: Question Time and an audience full of Leavers

The Brexit-voting audience was friendly and open to argument – but why was there no one from the government on the panel?
Read the full article21 June 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Why John Major is right about Boris Johnson

Going forward, the less we hear from and of Johnson, the better for all of us
Read the full article14 June 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: To go or not to go to Clacton, that is the question

BBC Question Time is marking seven years of Brexit with an audience made up entirely of 2016 Leave voters. Wish me luck...
Read the full article13 June 2023
Boris Johnson lied so often, so effortlessly

Boris Johnson was a winner but he won on falsehoods, and the truth caught up with him at last. Nothing is left but cold, hard anger
Read the full article07 June 2023
Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Keir Starmer’s Brexit strategy is baffling

Labour has put economic growth at the heart of their electoral campaign, but they will not succeed until they resolve the damage Brexit continues to inflict
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