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Alastair Campbell on combative politics, social media and who will lead the UK

The co-host of The Rest Is Politics spoke at Campaign Media 360.

Alastair Campbell Privately Claims He is Being ‘Begged’ to Take a Senior Role in No10

Guido hears Alastair Campbell is going around saying people keep begging for him to go back into No10 to save Starmer. Cloud cuckoo land… Much like his old accomplice turned Starme...

Alex Salmond wanted to give Alastair Campbell 'a job if Yes won 2014 indyref'

ALASTAIR Campbell has claimed that Alex Salmond offered him a government job if the Yes campaign won the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

Guido Whispers: Why Did Alastair Campbell Have His Doubts About Andy Burnham?

Why did Alastair Campbell have his doubts about Andy Burnham back in the Brown years? Which ex-Prime Minister may make a comeback? And what was the reaction of Chuka Umunna’s colle...

Starmer’s biographer offers insight into ‘stubborn’ PM’s psyche amid Labour turmoil

The questions Douglas Alexander has to answer over Peter Mandelson

Influential. Effective. Good news for government and country. These are just some of the words and phrases we now know Douglas Alexander used to describe Peter Mandelson

Media as ‘a growth engine’ to dominate agenda at Media 360 on 19-20 May

Allwyn, L’Oreal, Lloyds Banking Group and Just Eat are among top brands speaking, plus there’s a fireside chat with Alastair Campbell of The Rest Is Politics on media and UK politi...

Desperate Morgan McSweeney Wanted to Hire External Team to Run Number Ten

Peter Mandelson → Pat McFadden (then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) WhatsApp, 16–17 August 2025 Mandelson: I am going mad with the things Morgan is sending me. I am trying t...

Your bitter ex, and other people from your past you’d rather hear from than Tony Blair

THE ghoulish spectre of Tony Blair reappeared this week to share his thoughts on current events. Here are five people you’d sooner hear from.

Mandelson files reveal a man for whom betrayal is a way of life | John Crace

The Prince of Darkness appears in his element bad-mouthing colleagues and allies behind their backPeter Mandelson *** Red Dispatch Box *** Please contact *** and ask her to talk to...

Peter Mandelson files reveal The Thick of It may have been closer to reality than we knew

‘I would make sure you never regret it,’ Mandelson told Cabinet minister David Lammy ahead of his appointment as ambassador to the UK

Andy Burnham says 'change can't come soon enough' after release of the Mandelson files: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Messages between ministers and aides published as part of the 'Mandelson files' show infighting and sniping abound within Labour.

LISTEN: Blair Launches Blistering Attack on Burnham and Starmer

Tony Blair has followed up his excoriating essay last night with a fresh attack on Labour’s leading lights on this morning’s media round. Even Burnham gets a kicking… Speaking on t...

Mandelson and Staff Scheming to Hire ‘Economic Adviser’ to Mentor Starmer

Peter Mandelson to Vidhya Alakeson WhatsApp, 1–4 July 2025 Mandelson: Hi hope you are well and are coping with everything. I am flying back to Washington later today but if you hav...

Mandelson and McSweeney: a partnership forged on winning and crushing the Labour left

Former chief of staff who helped bring Mandelson out of Labour shadows for Washington post to be questioned by MPs on vetting processLike many Labour stories, Peter Mandelson’s and...

A summer of Labour chaos? Tony Blair 'poised to ramp up his interventions' in leadership battle - as Wes Streeting takes...

Sir Tony, who was Labour premier between 1997 and 2007, this week made an explosive entry into the party's infighting as MPs mull whether to ditch Keir Starmer.

Who is Dan Jarvis, the ‘steely-eyed messenger of death’ taking on the Ministry of Defence?

The former Parachute Regiment officer has been deployed to Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan

Count Binface ‘only man who can unite Labour’, says Blair

Burnham Accuses Blair of ‘Retro Thinking’ in Written Counterattack

Andy Burnham has hit back at Tony Blair in writing with a Times piece. His main arguments: Agrees with Blair on “the vital need for higher economic growth as the enabler of greater...

Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden: Every Meeting I Have Is About Hiking Tax and Paying More Benefits

Peter Mandelson → Pat McFadden (then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) WhatsApp, 24 May 2025 Mandelson: I have spoken to Morgan a lot this week and last night I was direct with...

Allies of Olly Robbins make Starmer claim after being sacked over Mandelson vetting row

The performative politician who paved Ardern’s way

Opinion: Tony Blair became the prototype for an entire generation of leaders who communicate their ambitions superbly but fall flat on delivery

Mandelson files latest: Former Labour peer said ministers would ‘never regret’ appointing him as US ambassador

The then ambassador to the US told Pat McFadden that Keir Starmer’s Downing Street operation was ‘beleaguered and bereft’

Tony Blair is back and he's seriously serious about getting serious

We have a guest column from the politician everyone’s been talking about for the last 30 years: Tony Blair.