alastair: absolutely. tech sector which is very fast-growing and relies a lot on cross-cultural, cross-country talents and investments. for sure, over the last two to three years, an awful lot of uncertainty in london. there have been funds that were not able to raise. lp's that can no longer invest in u.k. funds. there have been companies that might have started in london starting somewhere else. there has been a lot of uncertainty. that has not hurt europe. europe as a whole has done very well over the last few months. last quarter, 8.7 billion euros invested in european startups. that is a massive record. this year has already beaten last year on how much is invested in europe. but, it has meant what london may have taken a bigger share of has now flown to other places like paris or berlin. taylor: as an investor, are you more comfortable going to other cities in europe to get away from the uncertainty in london? alastair: we are a european fund. we invest in a european startups going international and

alastair campbell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ant to begin with that election result itself. when you saw it, as a tribally labour man, labour all your life but who has run into a series of problems withjeremy corbyn and his leadership, how did you respond to that result? i wasn't wholly surprised. i had privately predicted about 50, 60. majority for the tories. yes, and the reason for that is, i think, the country decided some time ago that it's not electing jeremy corbyn as prime minister. you can argue if that's fair or unfair but i think that was something i sensed just going around the country. ifelt really sad, to be honest. i felt sad for lots of reasons. i felt very sad that borisjohnson, who i've known for a very long time and who i really don't think is a suitable guy to be prime minister of one of the great countries of the world, is going to be in power with a lot of power and having seen what he done with a little bit of power, that is alarming, and even though, as you say, i've been kicked out of the labour party for

alastair's right, that's not going to be at all easy. their great hope is a trade deal with the u.s. i can't see that happening and i can't see it happening for two reasons. firstly, it is very clear that two priorities for the americans are one, greater access for u.s. pharmaceutical products or two, greater access for u.s. agricultural products. and for good or ill, in this country, there is an allergy to any sense of any access to the nhs, and an absolute allergy to having american chlorinated chicken. people really don't want it. so that makes the politics of giving away on either of those really, really difficult. so from the uk side, i can't see how a deal gets done. and on the u.s. side, as you know, the notion that you're going to have congress approve a trade deal rapidly in the u.s. political environment. and frankly, whoever wins the u.s. election next year, i can't see this being very high. so i just don't see that happening. and that's a pillar of the sort of, if there was a logic to the brexit process, it is to, you know, h

my name is alastair campbell. i think people will know me as having worked for tony blair.y and chancellor of the exchequer, lord chancellor and justice secretary. right... corbyn orjohnson? such a joyless election. it's different. so, yeah, i've always been labour. i'm left of centre. bit of a spectrum, left of centre. record skips. i've always described myself as right of centre. i'm a discontented conservative. i'm about to have a meal, lunch. in the main, i refuse to have lunch. oh, my god! ah! i was taking your name in vain in a conversation earlier on. were you? good to see you. what were you saying? forgive me for not leaping to my feet — i'm rather lame nowadays. what were you saying? i thought, who had moved away from parliamentary politics towards public relations politics started... 0h! ..when tony brought you. so you're blaming me? you got rid of all the civil service press officers... oh, rubbish! ..and it all became more media based. i don't think that's true. i'm sure you would defend your media—based. .. what are you going to vote? well, i've voted every ele

people we meet the soldiers are exploiting a convoy hit the road and say you see in the crossfire as alastair has written about telling the stories ultimately it's not just about al-jazeera it's about the people who tell the stories about. violence is probably. cools it's the political wild card but ultimately shapes world order the structure that is defended at all cost. be it with the support of the people fall through the crushing of their will. people in power exposes the use and abuse of power around the world. on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder at the top stories here on al-jazeera the white house says it will not participate in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into u.s. president donald trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on wednesday inquiry is looking into whether trump abused his power by asking ukraine to investigate his political rival. the iraqi parliament has approved prime minister out of a build this resignation comes up to weeks of protests where more than 400 people

alastair campbell we have to and there. thank you for being on hardtalk.een down to —6, there has been some snow around too, but the main message in the forecast is that it is going to be mild this week, some wet and windy weather on the way, gale force winds, not surprising for this time of year. but it is already starting to happen out there in the atlantic. low pressures are forming, weather fronts will be heading our way, we have a fair bit of cloud and some light rain affecting the south and south—east at the moment. we have got one weather front here keeping things a little bit milder. we have got clear skies, but also mist and fog across northern england and scotland, and that's where we've had the colder air. temperatures have been down to —6 degrees but actually rising a little bit through the early hours of tuesday morning. tuesday starts off grey, cloudy, and drizzly in the south, mist and murk across the midlands and parts of northern england, and still a little bit of winteryness left over from the night across scotland. four degrees in aberde

i'm alastair cook here with the ninth episode of "i, claudius." nudity in it. i very much wanted to. >> rather than try to come up with a show that would run for years and years, it was this idea that, here is a limited story, we're going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let's just do this one self-contained thing. >> we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. >> it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you, but it was fun at the same time. the miniseries was such a huge success for public television. abc was the network that hit gold with "rich man, poor man." >> how do you even tell a story that isn't controlled by the clock? characters that can grow and change and differ. >> i want to talk to you. >> about what? >> about making an honest man out of me. >> it's a subject i rarely discuss in the nude. >> what we saw in the '70s was big-event television, if it was done right and if it was compelling, the audience kept coming ba

my name is alastair campbell. i think people will know me as having worked for tony blair.or of the exchequer. lord chancellor and justice secretary. i'm a discontented conservative. corbyn orjohnson. such a joyless election. it's different. oh my god. forgive me for not leaping to my feet, i'm rather lame nowadays. what are you going to go to? well, i've voted every election in my life so far, i voted conservative. but i'm a discontented conservative. i know a lot of people in the major government, not quite sure who they are going to vote for. there's a spectrum, 0k? corbyn is there and farage is there and johnson isjust inside farage. so where are you? i'm centre—right about there. right, 0k. and where the lib dems? the lib dems, well they are they are protest, they are vehicle for protest votes. are you going to protest against that lot? well, that's what a protest vote is. right. i am a conservative. your party has become the brexit party. well, we always had a right wing fringe. now they have taken over. well, i've got to make my mind up. you haven't decided yet? no.

. >> so earlier between alastair campbell about what has been a brexit issue or a corbin issue. >> for me on the doorstep of the constituencies but it was always negativity about jeremy first be honest about that. he stuck to what he has received with the climate agenda and fighting a hard brexit devastated and places by homophobic or racist and we pay the price for doing so. >> so by the way from downing street and speeding from north london it's those who have worked in the past so why would they vote something it should be obvious. >> looking at that result in they voted for brexit toward labor and leader and its values and hoping to win them back and all of them i am on their children so what happens next if he says he wants to stay on if there is a debate about the future of the party as a period of reflection can he do that? >> he had the right position but the whole election has been badly executed whether he wants to or not people are prepared to say by the middle of next week there would be leadership contest. >> and to see the prime minister at downing street with the majorit

alastair had an inch and a half and i about fell off my chair when i saw that but i'm not surprised because that was the line yesterday and now it's moving northward. probably have more than this now, update once an hour and i bet they have more than that. this is all about san jose southward towards the east. the system on friday and saturday will be all about to the north. a 10th of an inch to an inch and that is verified. sometimes it works, sometimes it works. but most of us this in the morning, slowly decreasing as you head into the afternoon and evening hours. decreasing already to the north as it moves in around santa barbara. look at these bands coming in, morgan hill, sam martin-gilroy. that is why they are picking up an half inch to an inch of rain. this to be the case throughout most of the day as the low slowly works its way in. look at this northeast breeze, 25 miles per hours. 50s on the temperatures. this'll be for friday and saturday, today mainly above lake level. there is some rain-stomachs but most above lake levels. areas to the south, moderate to heavy rain. our system

a bit of a dingdong earlier between alastair campbell and jon lansman about whether this had been a jeremy aboutjeremy corbyn, but it was always negative about jeremy first and then brexit. let's be honest about that. i am proud ofjeremy let's be honest about that. i am proud of jeremy for standing let's be honest about that. i am proud ofjeremy for standing up to the vilification he has received, for dragging us to a green agenda and for fighting a hard brexit. to us, this is an attack on the working class, devastated in places like leigh by thatcherism, by a deregulation campaign, and we were right to resisted but we have paid the price for doing so. so in somewhere like leigh, which you know very well, by the way, that is the prime minister's car going to downing street from uxbridge, speeding from north london, the point is in somewhere like leigh, you say that it is the working classes, working people, who have suffered in the past from the kind of policies you have been very critical of. why would they therefore vote for something which you say should be obvious to them? my guess whe