But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

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He advised the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence in 2014, worked for the People’s Vote Campaign in the failed pursuit of a second Brexit referendum and remains an outspoken opponent of Brexit and the refusal of the main parties to recognise the damage it has done to Britain. He attended Bradford Grammar School for a short period of time, [8] followed by City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School [4] and the University of Cambridge where he was an undergraduate student of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The following year, he was portrayed by Mark Bazeley in the Stephen Frears film The Queen – a role reprised by Bazeley in 2010 follow-up The Special Relationship. The march was described by the media as the second biggest ever, after the protest against the Iraq war in 2003. In 1982, Campbell moved to the London office of the Daily Mirror, Fleet Street's sole remaining big-circulation supporter of the Labour Party.

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. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, Campbell worked for him first as press secretary, then as official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from 1994 to 2003. The story of the People’s Vote campaign offers deep lessons for the way politics is conducted and explained. He’s also a bruiser: tribal, pugnacious, overly confident, and apt to lose his temper – as he did in the middle of a discussion about Brexit on the BBC’s Newsnight only the other evening. He helped to found the world’s first university in football business, UCFB, in Burnley, Lancashire, which has since extended to Wembley and Manchester City’s Etihad stadium, as well as overseas.Social media has done much to harm thoughtful public debate, and culture warriors continue to exploit grievances rather than engage with them, and yet I still believe that if you have the better argument, ultimately you give yourself the better chance of winning. Passionate about sport, he was written about different sports for The Times, the Irish Times and Esquire magazine. Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, where he presented with Susanna Reid.

On the podcast interview with Gillian Keegan that I wrote about earlier this week, I said to her that I felt the government of which she was a member was doing things that even Margaret Thatcher woul. Campbell later put this down to stress over uncertainty as to whether he and his colleagues would lose their jobs. I often get told I should go into Politics to make a difference , To be honest though I ha no idea which party I would join . In July 2007, he published his first book on his time with Tony Blair, The Blair Years, extracts from his diaries from 1994 to 2003, which was an instant Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. He is active in social media where he does regular ‘Campbell’s Rambles’ live on Instagram, and his daily ‘Tree of the Day’ posts attract a widespread following around the world.Labour had no option but to go along with it, and a Parliament in which momentum towards a second referendum on Brexit was growing, voted to end itself and give Johnson the gift he had been longing for. His first piece for mainstream news journalism was coverage of the Penlee lifeboat disaster in December 1981, while a trainee on the Plymouth-based Sunday Independent, then owned by Mirror Group. They heard some of them asking each other what words they most like to hear us say, and stuff like that. In 2003 and 2004, he wrote a series for The Times newspapers, analysing greatness in sport to answer the question "Who is the greatest sports star of all time?

I endlessly debated on TV, radio and in public meetings, with prominent Leavers like Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg. He announced this after the polls had closed in interviews on TV and radio covering the results as they came in. If you make it to the top, and do it well, you’re talked about and written about for ever, and your ideas and legacy outlive you. Campbell wrote the speech that led to the party's review of Clause IV and the birth of "New Labour".Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice. From 2000-03, he was the Downing Street director of communications and strategy; he also worked for Labour in various guises during the election campaigns of 2005, 2010 and 2015. His first novel, All In The Mind, appeared in November 2008, to enthusiastic reviews for its frank examination of mental illness. Later, I will hear Stewart do exactly this, and each time he does, it is a bit like being in a John le Carré novel. The government later accused the BBC of behaving improperly for allowing Campbell to appear as a more in-depth version of his diaries was due to be published the following week, and a Downing Street spokesman told The Guardian, "Campbell seemed to be on because he's flogging a book next week, so the BBC haven't behaved entirely properly here.