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Fantastic backing for #Equality4MentalHealth campaign. Please add your support here to help end historic injustice

Around the time of Charles Kennedy's death I spent a lot of time talking to his Lib Dem colleague, Norman Lamb. I didn't know him very well but had always felt, when he was a health minister, that he ... Continue

First Clegg, now councils, act as Cameron’s lightning rods

The Tories (ie the government) will be feeling pleased enough with the spin operation surrounding the cuts to local authorities. The media were buying enough 'power to the people' (sic) to dilute the ... Continue

14 December 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Nick Clegg can have my painting of him for nine grand

If I have mastered the technology correctly (said the nervous non cyberwarrior) then if you click on here you will see my debut in political art. Art and I never got on at school, possibly because we... Continue

12 December 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Lib Dem human shield is helping Cameron- Labour needs to get more focus on the Tories

So ... Prince Charles and Camilla will be rueing going to the theatre in black tie, with the car all lit up. Their security advisors will be going over how it happened and, as ever when it comes to th... Continue

10 December 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Cameron will find Ken Clarke a tougher cookie than Clegg if he tries instant U-turn on sentencing and prisons

I used to skimread Hansard every day when I was a journalist, and felt better informed as a result. As Tory MP Bill Cash once said, if you want to keep something a secret these days, stand up and say ... Continue

9 December 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Fees protest taking heat off Tories; and good luck to Ken Clarke re mental health in prisons

When was the last time you saw David Cameron, George Osborne, Michael Gove or David Willetts being put under real pressure to make the case for the trebling of tuition fees? I ask because it is their... Continue

7 December 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Clegg the real loser in the proximity of Royal wedding to big vote

At Glasgow airport yesterday, I got chatting to a woman working in one of the bookshops who wondered how I thought the proximity of the Royal Wedding so close to elections would play out. Not entirely... Continue

25 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

As Gove changes school funding, stand by for another Clegg ‘I agonised’ interview

Take a look at Nick Clegg's face and hands in the picture in this Guardian report of how the Lib Dems planned to abandon the tuition fees pledge before the last election. The report makes pretty clea... Continue

13 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Frontline First?

Throughout the last election campaign, the Tories said till they were even bluer in the face than usual that they would protect the NHS from any looming cuts, and that within the public services more ... Continue

12 November 2010

Posted by Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, broadcasting, charities and consultancy.

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