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Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster, and activist, who is known for his political roles during Tony Blair's leadership of the Labour Party.
The Blair Years is a book by Alastair Campbell, featuring extracts from his diaries detailing the period during which he worked for Tony Blair. [1] Published by Random House, the book was released on 9 July 2007, only two weeks after Blair stood down as prime minister. As the first published major insider diary of the Blair era, many of the ...
It was issued to journalists on 3 February 2003 by Alastair Campbell, Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy, and concerned Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. Along with the earlier September Dossier, these documents were ultimately used by the British government to justify its involvement in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Campbell, 67, worked as Tony Blair and Labour’s spokesman and campaign manager from 1994 until 2003. ... — ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) December 16, 2024.
At one point Alastair Campbell intervened in an interview, preventing Blair from answering a question about his Christianity, explaining, "We don't do God." [ 294 ] Campbell later said that he had intervened only to end the interview because the journalist had been taking an excessive time, and that the comment had just been a throwaway line.
Alastair Campbell was central to the media image of New Labour. Once New Labour was established, it was developed as a brand, portrayed as a departure from Old Labour, the party of pre-1994 [33] which had been criticised for regularly betraying its election promises and was linked with trade unionism, the state and benefit claimants.
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It was reported that Alastair Campbell, Blair's Press Secretary, had influence over changes at Cabinet level. [6] The reshuffle was delayed by a week following Labour's unexpected success in the 1999 Eddisbury by-election. [7]