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. Campbell uses the bulk of his provocative pages to catalyse a burning desire on the part of his reader to participate in our ailing political system, and personally effect socially beneficial change.

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The panel debate, But what can I do now, in conversation with Alistair Campbell, took place at UCL's Bloomsbury Theatre on Thursday 5th October, 2023. Watch: Scottish musicians join forces with Alastair Campbell to launch charity single in aid of NHS workers". It draws on Alastair's long experience to offer practical tips on putting together and leading a campaign team. In Australia recently, where I was announced as a global ambassador for Australians for Mental Health, a road transport official talked to me about the official suicide statistics. In 2005, Campbell was played by Jonathan Cake in the Channel 4 television film The Government Inspector, based on the David Kelly Case.In an episode of Dead Ringers his close relationship with Tony Blair is satirised in an imaginary scenario where Blair is divorcing his wife. You can’t help but read it in Alastair’s voice, especially if you have listened to the amazing podcast hosted with Rory Stewart.

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He was a long-standing critic of Labour's Brexit strategy and in the May 2019 European elections, he voted Liberal Democrat as a protest vote. 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.For most of my life I did defend it, believing that it gave us strong and stable government, to quote Theresa May’s 2017 campaign mantra. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has also shifted his view, explaining this week how he has gone from total opposition to electoral reform to now possessing “the zeal of a convert”. But though the UK is the country I know best, I try to range far and wide in showing how the trends doing such damage to politics here are having a similar corrosive effect elsewhere.