I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. - Alastair Campbell
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
- Alastair Campbell
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. - Alastair Campbell
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.… - Alastair Campbell
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together.…
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. - Alastair Campbell
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo… - Alastair Campbell
I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someo…
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. - Alastair Campbell
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. - Alastair Campbell
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of … - Alastair Campbell
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of …
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously … - Alastair Campbell
One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously …
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