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Election week one: Alistair Campbell and Craig Oliver give their verdicts
After the first full week of campaigning in the general election, we’ve been speaking to two men who served as director of communications at Downing Street – Alistair Campbell worked under Tony Blair and now co-hosts the podcast The Rest is Politics – while Sir Craig Oliver was in Number 10 with David Cameron.
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BBC ‘presenter scandal’: ‘I hope the media will look at themselves in the coverage of this story’, says Alistair Campbell
Cathy is joined by Alastair Campbell, journalist and former Downing Street director of strategy and communications under Tony Blair, who has interviewed Huw Edwards about mental health.
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Debate: Will Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland change anything?
We speak to Belfast comedian Jake O’Kane and Margaret Gibney, who as a schoolgirl, 26 years ago, wrote to Tony Blair asking him to make peace happen in Northern Ireland.
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BBC impartiality ‘undermined’, says Times columnist
We spoke to Alastair Campbell, former director of communications to Tony Blair, who now hosts a podcast produced by Gary Lineker’s company, and Times columnist Matthew Syed, who himself hosts a BBC radio programme.
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Commonwealth realms will consider change, says Baroness Valerie Amos
Baroness Valerie Amos, International Development Secretary under Tony Blair, and Britain’s former high commissioner to Australia to discuss the future of the Commonwealth with King Charles as its head.
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UK government taken NI border ‘very lightly’, says Good Friday Agreement negotiator
We spoke to Jonathan Powell, who was chief of staff to Tony Blair and a chief British government negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement.
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‘A hellishly difficult problem’ to solve prosecutions relating to the Troubles, says negotiator in Northern Ireland peace process
Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair in Downing Street and was intimately involved in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Debate: Where does the racism targeted at England’s footballers leave the UK’s ‘culture war’?
We spoke to Alastair Campbell who was head of communications for former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Conservative political activist and columnist Tim Montgomerie about the UK’s ‘culture war’.
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Jihadi groups in Africa could become ‘threat to the West’, says analyst
We spoke to Bulama Bukarti, who studies jihadi violence in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. We asked him why does Africa now seem on the frontline of Jihadism?
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Series 6, Episode 12: David Miliband
David Miliband, has had a varied career – from working as a policy analyst in Tony Blair’s Downing Street, ultimately becoming Foreign Secretary to heading up an international charity, working with refugees all over the world.
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‘My Brexit 50ps will go in charity boxes’ – Alastair Campbell
Ann Widdecombe from the Brexit Party and Tony Blair’s former director of communications, Alastair Campbell discuss what a future outside the EU may look like.
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Johnson and Corbyn go head-to-head in TV debate
Brexit took centre stage again in the election campaign today. Labour attacked the Conservatives over their plans for the Northern Ireland border and former Prime Ministers – John Major and Tony Blair – united to suggest tactical voting to thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit.
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‘Britain crying out for leadership’: Will the two big parties survive? | Politics: Where Next? podcast
Chris Wilkins, Theresa May’s former Head of Strategy at Number 10 and Matthew Taylor, Head of the Policy Unit for Tony Blair discuss whether the two big political parties are going to be able to survive the current political crisis.
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Alastair Campbell: ’This is going inexorably towards a referendum’
Tony Blair’s former communications chief, Alastair Campbell, discusses the way forward.
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FactCheck: how students have been misled and lied to for 20 years
It’s been 20 years since Tony Blair first introduced tuition fees. Since then, students have been lied to, misled and betrayed by politicians and political parties. FactCheck uncovers the long history of broken promises and political U-turns.