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History of Aireworth Veterinary Surgery". Archived from the original on 30 December 2011 . Retrieved 11 July 2012. Campbell worked again for the Labour Party as Campaign Director in the run-up to their third consecutive victory at the 2005 general election. Campbell also acted as an adviser to Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband at the 2010 and the 2015 general elections. Sir Clive Woodward recruited Campbell to manage relations with the press for the British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand in 2005. Campbell wrote a column for The Times during the tour. Labour expels Alastair Campbell from party". The Guardian. 28 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 April 2021 . Retrieved 28 May 2019. Political Awards: and the winner is..." Channel 4 News. Channel 4. 23 January 2008. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009 . Retrieved 16 October 2008.

Rawnsley, Andrew (5 September 2010). "Tony Blair's A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley's Verdict". The Observer. London: Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 6 September 2010 . Retrieved 5 September 2010.Ryan, Anya (5 August 2022). "Comedian Grace Campbell, 'I don't give a f**k, I get that from my dad' ". Evening Standard . Retrieved 17 February 2023. a b Walker, Tim (8 September 2010). "Peter Morgan Accuses Tony Blair of Plagiarising Lines from His Film The Queen". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010 . Retrieved 9 September 2010. Campbell returned to England, preferring to stay with friends near Cheltenham rather than return to London (and his partner) where he did not feel safe. His condition continued with a phase of depression, and he was reluctant to seek further medical help. He eventually cooperated with treatment from his family doctor. [13] Return to work [ edit ] Bhadrakumar, M.M. (11 January 2011). "Blair Has a Story for Indians". The Hindu. Kasturi and Sons . Retrieved 29 May 2012. The book closes with a final chapter offering a critique of Labour Party policy, and discusses its future. Blair warns Brown's successor that if Labour is to remain electable they should continue pursuing New Labour's policies rather than return to the left-wing policies of the 1980s: [35] "I won three elections. Up to then, Labour had never even won two successive full terms. The longest Labour government had lasted six years. This lasted 13. It could have gone on longer, had it not abandoned New Labour." [25] Publication [ 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. 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. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) on 6 November 2017. [101] [102] The picture Rawnsley presents is of an inexperienced government in permanent panic and almost wholly paralysed by fear: fear of not being re-elected, fear of economic crisis, fear of rebellious old Labour MPs, fear of the civil service, fear of the press, fear of repeating their party's past mistakes, fear above all that they simply weren't up to the job. "New Labour ever had a palpitating heart," writes Rawnsley. Blair may always have known in his heart that he would do the right thing but, in domestic affairs at least, he didn't always know what the right thing was or how to do it. The specific policy promises were modest, to the point of being mundane. Blair would, however, make a nicer, happier, kinder society, though also one that was more youthful, modern and dynamic. The NHS would be saved, schools and universitieOther reviewers were less positive. The political journalist and author Andrew Rawnsley was critical of Blair's writing style in The Observer. "It is Tony Blair's boast that he wrote every word in longhand 'on hundreds of notepads'. That I believe," he wrote. "He was the most brilliant communicator of his era as a platform speaker or television interviewee, but he can be a ghastly writer. Anyone thinking about taking this journey needs to be given a travel advisory: much of the prose is execrable... I could say that it is a pity that Tony Blair did not employ a ghostwriter to prettify the prose and organise his recollections more elegantly." Rawnsley does, though, praise the book as being "a more honest political memoir than most and more open in many respects than I had anticipated." [59] Julian Glover, a columnist in The Guardian, said that "no political memoir has ever been like this: a book written as if in a dream– or a nightmare; a literary out-of-body experience. By turns honest, confused, memorable, boastful, fitfully endearing, important, lazy, shallow, rambling and intellectually correct, it scampers through the last two decades like a trashy airport read." [60] Charles Moore criticised Blair's writing style harshly in his Sunday Telegraph review: "If Blair wants to tell you a funny story, he makes the mistake of signalling in advance that you should be laughing– what happened was 'hilarious', his first weekend at Balmoral was 'utterly freaky'– thereby strangling the anecdote at birth. The book, like its author, is slightly embarrassing." [61] In the journal History Today, Archie Brown, emeritus professor of politics at the University of Oxford was critical of what he believed to be Blair's flawed sense of leadership, but had praise for the chapter on the Northern Ireland peace process: "Blair's role in the Northern Ireland settlement was perhaps his single most noteworthy achievement. His account of it is also the best chapter in a book which, even by the standards of memoirists who fancy themselves to be remarkable leaders, is strikingly egocentric." [62] In the United States [ edit ] Walker, Amy; Mason, Rowena. "Labour plays down Alastair Campbell expulsion review comments". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Barnett, Ruth (16 August 2010). "Blair's Book Donation Branded 'Blood Money' ". Sky News. British Sky Broadcasting. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012 . Retrieved 17 August 2010. Campbell has described himself as a pro-faith atheist, and his statement "we don't do God" is one of his more repeated soundbites. However, he was asked in late 2017 by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, whom Campbell had interviewed for GQ, to contribute to his book on the meaning of Christmas. In July 2017, he was invited to speak at the French National Assembly to the newly elected MPs of President Emmanuel Macron's victorious En Marche party, Campbell having met and advised Macron during the campaign. He urged the French to be patient with the United Kingdom and to give them a chance to change course and reverse Brexit. He said Macron had been bolder than Tony Blair in setting up a new party and leading it to power within little over a year. [60] [61]

He was sponsored by US President George W. Bush to complete the London Marathon in aid of leukaemia research charity Bloodwise.

Alastair Campbell at GQ". www.gq-magazine.com. GQ. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017 . Retrieved 15 May 2017. Curtis, Polly (2009). "The end of the 'bog-standard' comprehensive". theguardian.com. "The day of the bog-standard comprehensive is over" a b Sparrow, Andrew (1 September 2010). "Tony Blair's A Journey Memoir Released– Live Blog". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 26 November 2010 . Retrieved 17 November 2010.

No Royal Honour for Tony Blair, Queen Upset by Revelations in Memoir". NDTV. New Delhi Television. 5 September 2010 . Retrieved 9 November 2010. Adam Boulton Vs Alastair Campbell". YouTube GB. Sky News. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010 . Retrieved 15 May 2017.Halliday, Josh (23 May 2012). "Alastair Campbell gets job at PR agency Portland". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012 . Retrieved 5 July 2013. a b c d Lyons, James (1 September 2010). "Tony Blair Memoirs Blasted by Soldiers Families for 'Crocodile Tears' over Iraq". Daily Mirror. Trinity Mirror. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010 . Retrieved 13 November 2010. Campbell presented and narrated the 20 February 2012 edition of BBC current affairs programme Panorama, which was entitled "Britain's Hidden Alcoholics". Final Say: Alastair Campbell to answer questions on Reddit about the campaign for a People's Vote". The Independent. 19 September 2018. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018 . Retrieved 2 November 2018.