Mount, Harry (1 September 2010). "Tony Blair Shouldn't Be Surprised by the Queen's Traditional Upper-Class Manners". Telegraph.co.uk. London: Telegraph Media Group. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010 . Retrieved 9 November 2010. Goodhart, David (27 October 2010). "The Leader We Deserved". Prospect. Prospect Publishing . Retrieved 19 June 2012.

He entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years. [92] The couple have two sons and a daughter, the comedian Grace Campbell. [93] [94] Stage and screen portrayals [ edit ] 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. Campbell famously 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] Jones, Nicholas (2000). Sultans of Spin: The Media and the New Labour Government. Orion Books. ISBN 0-7528-2769-3.When Campbell was a boy, he would cross the county boundary to Lancashire to watch Burnley F.C. with his father. [82] He remains a lifelong Burnley supporter and writes about their exploits in a column titled "Turf Moor Diaries" for the FanHouse UK football blog. [83] He is regularly involved in events with the club. [84] He was heavily involved in rescuing the club from potential bankruptcy, gaining the support of many high-profile public figures. He was one of the founders of the University College of Football Business, based at Burnley's stadium. [85] He is also a fan of the Rugby League club Keighley Cougars, it having been a childhood dream to play for the team. [86] Writing in The Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr., former editor of that paper, called the work a "notably wistful memoir" and is generally positive about its content: "Toward the end of this well-written and perhaps unintentionally self-revealing memoir, Tony Blair, who was Britain's prime minister during an eventful decade from 1997 to 2007, insists he is 'trying valiantly not to fall into self-justifying mode– a bane of political memoirs.' But he has done just that." [65] Tim Rutton of the Los Angeles Times also gave the memoirs a favourable review, declaring it "a political biography of unusual interest." [66] Internationally [ edit ] White, Michael (5 November 2001). "White vs Campbell". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 24 November 2007 . Retrieved 19 July 2007. 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.

Campbell, Alastair (2007). The Blair Years. Random House. entry for 6 April 2002. ISBN 978-0-09-951475-6. A couple of years ago, I interviewed Blair again for Radio 4, for a programme looking at Syria and the terrible legacy of Iraq. Why, one listener complained, had I not carried out a citizen’s arrest on him? I wrote then that journalists and historians had exhausted the Blair trail. To get a better understanding of his mind, and our responses to him, it is surely time to turn to the psychiatrist’s chair. I'm not a Lib Dem, says Alastair Campbell after Labour expulsion". BBC News. 28 May 2019. Archived from the original on 20 October 2019 . Retrieved 29 May 2019. Some families of servicemen and servicewomen who were killed in Iraq reacted angrily to the book, in which Blair does not apologise for the invasion. [76] [77] "I can't regret the decision to go to war. I can say never did I guess the bloody, destructive and chaotic nightmare that unfolded– and that too is part of the responsibility," he says in the book. [76] Reg Keys, whose son Tom Keys was killed in Iraq in 2003, said the book was "just crocodile tears from Blair." [76] Keys said, "The tears he claims to have shed are nothing like the tears I and my wife have shed for our son. They are nothing like the tears that tens of thousands of Iraqis have shed for their loved ones. They don't even come close to it. They seem to me like crocodile tears. It is a cynical attempt to sanitise his legacy." [78] A spokesperson for Military Families Against the War said that Blair's expression of regret over the loss of life was "completely meaningless." The spokesperson added, "He has to prove his regret and giving money to charity doesn't come close. He is giving a minuscule amount compared to the cost of war and rehabilitation of injured soldiers. It is laughable." [76] [77] a b Walker, Tim (3 September 2010). "The Queen Is Not Amused by Tony Blair's Indiscretions". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 September 2010 . Retrieved 5 September 2010.Alastair Campbell, Speaker Mentor – "Define your key message" ". The Speaker. BBC. April 2009. Archived from the original on 11 April 2009 . Retrieved 10 May 2009. 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 ]