But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

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Campbell worked again for the Labour Party as Campaign Director in the run-up to their third consecutive victory at the 2005 general election. The second part is more about what we as individuals can do to address the problems that have made politics such a mess. 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. He then worked briefly for Today under new ownership in 1994 before being asked by Tony Blair to be his press secretary when Mr Blair became leader of the Labour Party. In March 2022, Campbell launched The Rest is Politics podcast with Rory Stewart, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and candidate in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.

He acts as a consultant strategist and as an ambassador for Time to Change and other mental health charities. Other nominees were Ken Clarke, William Hague, Anna Soubry and Dominic Grieve, but he was way ahead.He led a fundraising drive for Burnley FC, a team he has supported since the age of four, when the club was in financial trouble. Campbell then plays, by way of a finale, a lament he has composed for the lost of Northern Ireland on his bagpipes, a tune he transmogrifies into Happy Birthday in honour of someone in the balcony. He has since then been a prominent supporter and advocate for the mental health anti-stigma campaign Time to Change.

After the 1997 landslide election victory he became the Prime Minister’s Chief Press Secretary and Official Spokesman, which entailed the co-ordination of Government communications and twice daily briefings of the press. Both the film, Cracking Up, and All In The Mind, won considerable praise from mental health charities and campaign groups for helping to break down the taboo surrounding mental health, leading to his election as Mind Champion of the Year award in May He made a further BBC documentary, ‘My Depression and Me’ in 2019, which became the basis for Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression. The Liberal Democrats, at the time arguably the most anti-Brexit party, became seized by an absurd conviction they were on the verge of electoral triumph, so fell into the trap the Tories were laying to get the opposition parties to back an early election in December 2019, which they would make all about Brexit. In January 2014, Campbell announced that he was joining British GQ with a brief to conduct interviews with figures from "politics.First a handful, then dozens, then hundreds, before, in 1939, they produced a book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. In November 2017 Campbell was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his leadership role in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness, and in fighting for better services. He also worked hard to win support from the national media for the Labour Party, particularly from newspapers that for many years had been anti-Labour. In July 2019, in the week Boris Johnson became prime minister, Campbell penned a 3,500-word open letter to Jeremy Corbyn saying he no longer wished to be re-admitted to the party despite legal advice saying he would win a court case against his expulsion. Their first interview was with Ed Miliband, followed by Rachel Riley, Jamie Carragher, Kelly Holmes and Maro Itoje.

He has said that in ten years in the media, and a decade in politics, he saw his respect for the media fall and his respect for politics rise.I’m a friend of Bill,” she said, with a little wink and a smile as she headed to the changing rooms. Yet whenever I look at my inbox or visit a school or college, or chat to fellow passengers on a train or plane, I also sense so much energy, so much commitment, so much passion for better causes and ideas. View image in fullscreen Rory Stewart trekked across Afghanistan in 2001 for his book The Places in Between.

Kelly's view that the government exaggerated the Iraqi threat in the " Iraq Dossier", told to BBC journalists Andrew Gilligan and Susan Watts, had led to Campbell battling with the BBC. He entered into a civil partnership with British journalist Fiona Millar, on 30 March 2021, after being together for 42 years. Along with Tony Blair, Campbell has also provided consultancy services to the government of Kazakhstan on "questions of social economic modernisation. Campbell voted Labour in the 2019 general election, having been part of a failed tactical voting campaign aimed at preventing Johnson from winning a majority.Such a simple idea started in such a simple way, and yet today there is barely a town or city that doesn’t host regular AA meetings.