Campbell has published a number of books, including eight volumes of memoirs. In February 2018, he wrote, with Paul Fletcher, a novel on football and terrorism in the 1970s, Saturday Bloody Saturday. The book has a front cover quote from commentator John Motson describing it as "the best football novel I have ever read". [104] Campbell has long been linked with the “dodgy” dossier of September 2002 alleging Saddam was pursuing a weapons of mass destruction programme. Campbell wanted source revealed". BBC News. London: BBC. 22 September 2003. Archived from the original on 2 February 2011 . Retrieved 22 September 2013.

McGowan, Michael (23 July 2019). "Q&A: Alastair Campbell compares Donald Trump to Hitler". Guardian Australia. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019 . Retrieved 5 March 2020. The report notes that Hoon – early in 2002, before Blair went to see Bush in Texas in April – identified Iran as being a bigger problem for the UK than Iraq in terms of weapons of mass destruction proliferation. But he did not follow through on this and joined the rush to war in Iraq. Hans Blix In January 2014, Campbell announced that he was joining British GQ with a brief to conduct interviews with figures from "politics... sport, business, culture, (and) other aspects of life that I find interesting", succeeding Piers Morgan. In his role at GQ Campbell has interviewed a wide range of people, including Jose Mourinho, Raheem Sterling, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mario Balotelli, Mo Farah and Usain Bolt from the world of sport and Tony Blair, Sadiq Khan, Nicola Sturgeon, George Osborne, John McDonnell, John Bercow, and Chuka Umunna from the world of politics, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with many other figures from public life, including Archbishop Justin Welby, Garry Kasparov and Rachel Riley. In 2017, he conducted an interview with Prince William. In March 2017, GQ began to film the interviews to use as part of their digital platform, beginning with an interview with Owen Jones, and then Tony Blair. When Jeremy Corbyn was interviewed for the magazine in late 2017, he did so on the condition that Campbell would not be the interviewer. [44] [45] [46]Taylor, Jerome (31 October 2011). "The two faces of Tony Blair". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 3 November 2011 . Retrieved 5 July 2013. Yet, in the Campbell version, it is more often a grim and grinding tale than an inspiring and uplifting story. This is partly because the diary is grouchily coloured by the chronically depressive nature of its author, a man who presents a pugilistic face to the world as a mask for frequent despair about his life. Even on the night of the first, sensational election triumph, when Tory seat after seat is tumbling to Labour, he is miserable. "Fiona [Millar, Campbell's partner] asked what was wrong. I said it was probably the anticlimax and the worries about the future." The worries one can understand: Labour was coming into office after an 18-year absence from power. But an "anticlimax"? Labour has just won a crushing landslide and one of that victory's architects is grey with gloom. That persists when Blair makes his "A new dawn has broken, has it not?" speech at the Royal Festival Hall. Writes Campbell: "It was weird. I felt deflated. All around us people were close to delirium but I didn't feel part of it." The rise and fall of New Labour". BBC News. 3 August 2010. Archived from the original on 5 August 2010 . Retrieved 16 October 2010.

Campbell was a guest presenter of Good Morning Britain from 10 to 12 May 2021, where he presented with Susanna Reid. [51] Politics and government [ edit ] Campbell lecturing at the LSE series 'From Kennedy to Blair,' 7 July 2003 On 28 May 2019, Campbell announced that he had been expelled from the Labour Party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in that month's European elections, and that he would appeal against the decision. [70] He also questioned the speed of his expulsion compared to the treatment of Labour colleagues accused of anti-semitism. In response, shadow minister Dawn Butler stated that it was common knowledge that voting for another party would result in automatic exclusion. [71]

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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 Brexit, Europe, Macron, Trump, Turquie: Alastair Campbell répond aux questions de Pierre de Vilno". europe1.fr. europe1. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017 . Retrieved 21 July 2017. 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.

He was awarded the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage by the Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin on 16 October 2019. [103] Campbell clashed with Adam Boulton on Sky News about the result of the 2010 general election, with the latter being reduced to shouting over both Campbell and the show's presenter. [33] Elgot, Jessica (29 May 2019). "Tom Watson calls Alastair Campbell's expulsion 'spiteful' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019 . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Mason, Rowena (30 June 2013). "Tony Blair more truthful about war than liar Winston Churchill, says Alastair Campbell". telegraph.co.uk. London. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013 . Retrieved 1 July 2013.Campbell was part of Tony Blair's core team that conducted the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and he has been honoured by several Irish universities for his role in the peace process. He became a close friend of, among others, Martin McGuinness, and attended his funeral in 2017. It emerged McGuinness was helping Campbell with a novel which had an IRA active service unit as part of the plot. In 2007, he appeared on Comic Relief Does the Apprentice as project manager, having several clashes with Piers Morgan including his comment of "again?" when Morgan got fired, which went viral. [30] In 2019, he was appointed global ambassador to Australians for Mental Health, a new umbrella organisation fighting for better services. He made numerous media appearances and caused controversy by saying on the Australian version of Question Time, that Donald Trump and fellow populists were "sowing the seeds of fascism". [69]

Devine, Darren (28 October 2010). "Alastair Campbell on his battle with depression". Western Mail. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014 . Retrieved 17 November 2013. Marriott, James (18 March 2022). "The Rest Is Politics review — notes from the political wilderness". The Times. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022 . Retrieved 18 August 2022.After leaving university and doing casual jobs Campbell was accepted as a trainee reporter with the Mirror Group Newspapers. 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. Phillips, Adam (25 October 2008). "Feel the fear". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008 . Retrieved 31 October 2008. In 2012, Campbell made his first appearance in an acting role with a small part in an episode of the BBC drama Accused. [38]