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

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Kazakhstan". Freedom House. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013 . Retrieved 5 July 2013. He told Iraq that many countries still believed it had WMD. But the council wanted to offer Iraq a last opportunity, one that the UK and the US in the end did not wait for. John Williams

Sengupta, Kim (23 October 2010). "Forget conspiracies: the official version is scandalous enough". The Independent. London: Independent Newspapers Ltd. p.11. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010 . Retrieved 24 October 2010. Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, where he presented with Susanna Reid. [51] Mason, Rowena. " 'Alastair Campbell says he no longer wishes to be a Labour member' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019 . Retrieved 2 August 2019. Politics and government [ edit ] Campbell lecturing at the LSE series 'From Kennedy to Blair,' 7 July 2003In 1982, Campbell moved to the London office of the Daily Mirror, Fleet Street's sole remaining big-circulation supporter of the Labour Party. He became a political correspondent, then in 1986 moved to Today, a full-colour tabloid newspaper which was at the time trying to turn leftward, where he worked as a news editor. His rapid rise and its accompanying stress led to alcohol abuse. [13] Alcoholism and depression [ edit ] Roll of Honour March 2022" (PDF). The Royal College of Psychiatrists. March 2022 . Retrieved 15 October 2022. He is a keen runner, cyclist, swimmer and triathlete. He raised over half a million pounds for charity running the London Marathon in 2003. In his 60s, he developed an interest in cold water swimming. [89] Williams, who was Campbell’s counterpart at the Foreign Office and was also a former political editor at the Daily Mirror, is quoted in the Chilcot report offering various media strategies.

a b "Alastair Campbell 'expelled' from Labour Party". BBC News. 28 May 2019. Archived from the original on 20 October 2019 . Retrieved 28 May 2019. 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. Why has there never been a male Bridget Jones? It may seem odd that this should have occurred to me half-way through the latest instalment of Alastair Campbell’s seemingly never-ending diaries, which are neither fictional nor comic, and yet it did.

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Horowitz, Anthony (31 January 2010). "Review: Alastair Campbell's novel Maya". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010 . Retrieved 24 February 2010. 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. The report heavily criticises the Ministry of Defence for sending troops into Iraq without proper equipment, such as vehicles tough enough to withstand explosive devices and sufficient helicopters for transporting troops around.