Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power (The Alastair Campbell Diaries, 1)

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Testifying at the Royal Courts of Justice during the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, Alastair Campbell said of his diary: "It is not intended for publication." Either the size of the advance changed his mind or, more likely, that was always a cynical fib. He published one version of his jottings in 2007, just two weeks after Tony Blair left No 10. Now comes the first of an intended four further volumes. They compete for thumping length with Winston Churchill's multi-volume chronicle of the second world war. In Campbell's view, they will be barely less important. With characteristic self-effacement, he describes himself as "the nexus of some of the key political and personal relationships which shaped New Labour and therefore recent British political history". Politics and government [ edit ] Campbell lecturing at the LSE series 'From Kennedy to Blair,' 7 July 2003 He entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years. [92] The couple have two sons and a daughter, the comedian Grace Campbell. [93] [94] Stage and screen portrayals [ edit ]

Campbell is one of the few to emerge relatively unscathed from the report. Far from attempting to “sex up” up the dossier, Campbell comes across as one of the voices of reason.Although Campbell chaired a committee overseeing the dossier, Chilcot makes it clear that it was Scarlett that drew up the dossier and Blair that wrote the foreword. In March 2022, Campbell launched The Rest is Politics podcast with Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and candidate in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election. The pair discuss current news stories and reminisce about their old jobs. [79] Personal life [ edit ] Alastair Campbell joins The New European as editor-at-large". The New European. 24 March 2017. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017 . Retrieved 13 April 2017. Straw also identified the need for a “Plan B” for the UK not to participate in military action in the event that the government failed to secure a majority in the parliamentary Labour party for military action.

Chilcot blames MI6 for failing to inform No 10 or others that the source who had made claims about alleged weapons of mass destruction in September 2002 had been lying. Eliza Manningham-Buller Durrani, Arif (13 January 2014). "Alastair Campbell succeeds Piers Morgan at GQ". Campaign. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017 . Retrieved 13 April 2017. Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, where he presented with Susanna Reid. [51]Campbell became a central figure in the handling of the aftermath of Princess Diana's death after the head of the royal household, the Earl of Airlie, asked Tony Blair to second Campbell to help prepare the funeral, saying they knew it would have to be different. Campbell is widely reported to have coined the phrase "the people's princess" and to have persuaded the queen to make her broadcast to the nation more personal, not least by using the phrase "speaking as a grandmother". Campbell's character appears in the 2006 film The Queen, but he has said most of it was fictional. Alastair Campbell". Trusupporter. Archived from the original on 30 June 2009 . Retrieved 8 September 2011. Well, now Tony Blair's consigliere, Alastair Campbell, has stepped forward, after editing down more than two million words into a still-formidable volume, to tell us that in all those years when the author was firing off abusive letters to television stations, tearing a strip off inadequate journalists and threatening elected members of the Labour party with the termination of their halting careers, he was secretly suffering agonies of self-doubt, wondering whether the price he and his family were paying was far too high, and despairing daily of how he might ever again lead what he calls a normal life. At a Celia Johnson-ish moment in their second election campaign, he and Tony Blair stop in a Dorset café by the sea. "Don't you sometimes wish," says Blair, apparently scripted by Noël Coward, "we had a normal life like the people who live over there?" Final Say: Alastair Campbell to answer questions on Reddit". The Independent. 19 September 2018. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018 . Retrieved 11 October 2018. Lewis, Jason (29 October 2011). "Oil rich dictator of Kazakhstan recruits Tony Blair to help win Nobel peace prize". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 30 October 2011 . Retrieved 5 July 2013.