A mix of polemic, analysis and practical advice, this is a political masterclass from a master political commentator and strategist. Three days later, Laws resigned his post following revelations about possible irregularities in his expenses claims in The Telegraph the day before. Campbell played an important role in the run-up to the 1997 UK general election, working with Peter Mandelson to co-ordinate Labour's successful election campaign. To receive the best experience possible, please make sure any ad blockers are switched off, or add https://experience. Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice.

He was a close adviser to Neil Kinnock, going on holiday with the Kinnocks, and worked closely with Daily Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell. On 28 May 2019, Campbell announced that he had been expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in that month's European elections, and that he would appeal against the decision. His condition continued with a phase of depression, and he was reluctant to seek further medical help. If a soft Brexit was possible in 2016 or even 2017, by the time we launched People’s Vote, such a compromise was the least popular of all the options. Both the film, Cracking Up, and All In The Mind, won considerable praise from mental health charities and campaign groups for helping to break down the taboo surrounding mental health, leading to his election as Mind Champion of the Year award in May He made a further BBC documentary, ‘My Depression and Me’ in 2019, which became the basis for Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression.The double act in question – Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s bagpipe-playing former henchman, and Rory Stewart, who was briefly the secretary of state for international development under Theresa May – began their podcast, The Rest Is Politics, in March 2022. By March 1997, many of the leading newspapers—including The Sun, once a staunch Thatcherite paper; had declared their support for Labour. When the curtain rises – Campbell sits beneath a red spotlight, and Stewart beneath a blue – they begin by asking the crowd where they’ve travelled from.

In 2012, Campbell made his first appearance in an acting role with a small part in an episode of the BBC drama Accused.Campbell wrote a piece criticising the chairman of Open Britain, Roland Rudd, after Rudd unilaterally decided to sack two key campaign officials ahead of the 2019 UK general election.

The Liberal Democrats, at the time arguably the most anti-Brexit party, became seized by an absurd conviction they were on the verge of electoral triumph, so fell into the trap the Tories were laying to get the opposition parties to back an early election in December 2019, which they would make all about Brexit. Then they discuss the National Conservatism Conference, an event attended by Tory rightwingers (“horrifying”, says Stewart). Ultimately we were unsuccessful – partly, we both felt, because we failed on questions of leadership, teamship and strategy, and partly because we didn’t have the winning mindset instilled from top to bottom. Exklusive Mitglieds-Angebote und Sonderrabatte, die du jederzeit auf beliebige Titel anwenden kannst.After 120 pages of eminently convincing doom-mongering, the book essentially becomes a How To guide, hoping to inspire future generations of activists to rise up and, ultimately, lead us out of this mess that the old guard – white men, mostly, privately educated – have landed us in. 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. Theirs is an almost fairy-tale story of the fusion of teamship and leadership, in which the local, very personal actions of a leader who never saw himself as such led to a global organisation that has helped and saved countless lives. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what qualifications you have or haven’t got, or where you come from. But though the UK is the country I know best, I try to range far and wide in showing how the trends doing such damage to politics here are having a similar corrosive effect elsewhere.