Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbellis a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for prime minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. He resigned in August 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1957
continuing intensive parties round stage talking work
It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage of a new round of intensive negotiations.
grass length
If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
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He included plenty of references of specific points of anxiety relating to the training and the day itself. And he put in a few specific trigger words or phrases that he urged me to say to myself whenever I felt I was weakening or panicking. The one that lodged was 'better, faster, stronger.
absolutely full stay term
He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that,
blaming found hilarious media press second test
He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me for the second Test defeat.
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There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have to put your money on Gordon,
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For the entire period I worked for Tony Blair, almost a decade, I did not use a computer. This was not any old decade of course, but the one in which computer technology advanced further and faster than during any period in our history.
miss
I don't miss the limos and the jets. I do miss... what do I miss? I do miss Tony.
bring character huge perhaps warlike
A huge character, Gareth would bring a very different, perhaps more warlike approach,