we've also seen alastair campbell.onsidering tony blair is wading into the misinformation conversation. alastair campbell has spread a far left conspiracy theory that trump somehow faked his ear being shot and has said, oh, look how, look how amazingly his. it's a miracle that his ear grew back. >> it was it was extraordinary. i'll tell you what. freedom of speech, our fundamental democratic right is on life support all around the world. we had the ceo and founder of telegram being arrested in france . yeah. absolutely. france. yeah. absolutely. scandalous. he's been charged with that sort of side. you've had elon musk being having a pop that basically the eu tried to silence him before that brilliant bromance interview with trump where they talked about that sort of side. and you've also had him being shut down in brazil. and if you look at that sort of thing, the worst thing i had his dad on, on my show, errol musk, and we talked about this and he said, well, elon doesn't really. he just carries on. he's quite noncha

alastair campbell of 20 there. alastair campbell of 20 plus years.good nights in players bar with gwen, but i think it's absolutely just moronic that they've let him go. it's beyond silly. i just can't take them seriously if they've let go. >> i take your concerns about that. i think other reform supporters are concerned about his departure , but the fact is, his departure, but the fact is, nigel farage is focused on the red wall and he can win it back. bofis red wall and he can win it back. boris did it in 2019. he'll do it in 2029. >> i don't think he will. i mean, you know, they're scrapping on twitter over whether or not they should let tommy robinson in the party. you know, a bloke that's got a rap sheet longer than eminem. like i can't take them seriously when they're even considering letting someone like tommy robinson into the reform uk party. it's not serious. >> okay. what do you think about this, nigel? britain's next prime minister. >> but will he stay the course ? >> but will he stay the course? my >> but will he stay the course? my only

alastair campbell of 20 there. alastair campbell of 20 plus years.nights in players bar with gwen, but i think it's absolutely just moronic that they've let him go. it's beyond silly. i just can't take them seriously if they've let go. >> i take your concerns about that. i think other reform supporters are concerned about his departure , but the fact is, his departure, but the fact is, nigel farage is focused on the red wall and he can win it back. bofis red wall and he can win it back. boris did it in 2019. he'll do it in 2029. >> i don't think he will. i mean, you know, they're scrapping on twitter over whether or not they should let tommy robinson in the party. you know, a bloke that's got a rap sheet longer than eminem. like i can't take them seriously when they're even considering letting someone like tommy robinson into the reform uk party. it's not serious. >> okay. what do you think about this, nigel? britain's next prime minister. >> but will he stay the course ? >> but will he stay the course? my >> but will he stay the course? my only conce

well no, it's like the guy even alastair campbell was posting. >> what?ome his ears regenerated? you know, you've got mad conspiracy theorists on the left like alastair campbell, but yeah, no conspiracy theorists on the left don't make mad conspiracy theorists on the right suddenly. okay, cnn said that trump we just stop with the mad conspiracy. this is an answer. cnn said that trump didn't plan to do this until the morning. so that is a legitimate question. how did he know it could be that there's a leak in the secret service team that would be less of a conspiracy theory. >> it could be that he was waiting his time and he got lucky, and it could be that as well. but the other thing i'd like to say about this gentleman, if you've seen the photo of him, is that he's got fantastic abs. >> yeah, he's also got his hair dyed, the colours of ukraine and mad eyes. he's the only person i've known. more obsessed with ukraine is leo kearse. other than that, it's just those two. >> as a man who is i mean personally on a diet, he had low body fat percentage. yeah, t

. >> i mean, the last labour government that alastair campbell was under the bbc constantly complainingwhoever's in government hates the bbc. >> well, maybe the bbc are much more impartial than we think. well, thank you to my panel. they'll be joining me again later. now, in a moment as french president macron appoints former eu chief brexit negotiator michel barnier as prime minister. i'll be joined by a man who knows him better than most. lord frost will be here in just a than most. lord frost will be here in jusand relationships, education and relationships, there's no real consensus. there's no agreement about what should be taught. so it's all a lot more controversial. and bnan lot more controversial. and brian says, i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by their character. and the best person will get the job regardless of their skin colour. very good point. it should all be about merit. although i think the bbc definitely need a bit more diversity of viewpoint as some of our viewers

and people like alastair campbell, who, frankly, is beyond the pale when it comes to any sort of reasonableut more than even those, the most disappointing example was our former editor, david yelland , who really should david yelland, who really should know better, who accused our editor of victoria newton of an act of terror against huw edwards. and yet now we are at the end of this long, long process where a man has been convicted and sentenced to jail. although suspended, for a crime which is truly heinous . when you which is truly heinous. when you think about what's involved here, what he was watching and enjoying and paying for and funding, therefore , was an funding, therefore, was an international child sex sort of gang, which he was witnessing. child rape. and there was a. it is disgusting. >> i mean it is the newspapers have reported it is unbelievably disgusting what he was , what he disgusting what he was, what he confessed to in the end. yes. >> and we were pilloried for telling the truth. and we handled this story with extreme delicacy. having legal advice, which we took very,

this admittedly, is a tufton street, which is a sort of a alastair campbell's bete noire tufton streetlicy studies. so they are centre right think tank and they've said, look, we need to rebalance our migration policy towards those who can make a substantial positive contribution. even this won't be enough to close the revenue gap. they point out that because of benefits, health care and pensions, anything that, you know, migrants bring is dwarfed by the amount that we pay for them in tax. so what are they bringing? it's absolutely insane. and yvette cooper is not helping because she she paused this thing to there was going to be an increase in in the salary threshold to bring in dependants and family members. she's paused that now. so you only have to earn 2028 k. and i don't think labour have a serious plan on this. their spokesman has come back and said, oh, we're we're going to get down net immigration, which means they've commissioned a review on it. they commissioned some pointless review. it might not be pointless, but it's a classic sort of labour response. oh, we've got a revi

. >> i mean, the last labour government that alastair campbell was under the bbc constantly complainingo whoever's in government hates the bbc. >> well, maybe the bbc are much more impartial than we think. well, thank you to my panel. they'll be joining me again later. now, in a moment as french president macron appoints former eu chief brexit negotiator michel barnier as prime minister. i'll be joined by a man who knows him better than most. lord frost will be here in just a welcome back to state of the nation. i'm miriam cates and tonight i'm standing in for sir jacob rees—mogg. and we've been discussing labour's plans for education and also the bbc. and you've been in touch with your views on our email address. and here are a couple. marianne says isn't it a contradiction in terms to ask a parent to give permission for their child to sit in a lesson, but then deny that same parent the access to the content? well, yes, i think that's a really good point , that's a really good point, marianne. and i think one of the problems is that in a lot of subjects like maths and science, most peo

it is jonathan powell, alastair campbell and peter mandelson, chief of staff, who isn't a story herself a head of communications. and i don't even know who was the head of communications for, for the prime minister, the conservative party now and then, someone who's got a organic, wider view of. >> so, look, of.— >> so, look, i of. >> so, look, i couldn't agree with you more. and, you know, i was part of government that didn't have a grip. i mean, you know, with liz truss, boris to a lesser degree. and it's obvious to me that there is no central coordinating force at the heart of government. we have to move on, gentlemen , i have on, gentlemen, i have a statement to read out from downing street. a spokesman said this. we're working with the police urgently to return the people who were sentenced using outdated legislation. they've all been monitored since their release , so they will be brought release, so they will be brought back into prison. well, at least that's good to know. thanks to my panel. and coming up next. unions vote in favour of reversing the winter fuel cut . reversing t

people like trump, who, from his perspective, might be, you know, not exactly simpatico because alastair campbell is so ludicrous on this issue. he was posting recently how trump's ear was magically regenerated. it doesn't seem to quite believe in the assassination attempt, really kind of conspiracy based stuff. whereas blair, there was an interview with blair and campbell a while ago, and you could just see campbell kept pushing his extreme trump derangement syndrome. but blair was far more sensible because he understands you have to work with these people and he talks about berlusconi and how he we got the olympics partly because of his deal with berlusconi, apparently. >> yeah, i love that berlusconi saying to him, well, how much do you want it? and he says, i really want it for britain. go on then we'll change our vote. >> he can't have it. reads like he missed out the bit where he had to sleep with him , but he had to sleep with him, but he probably had to offer him something. >> berlusconi probably owns , >> berlusconi probably owns, like sheffield or something. we don't know. i know he's d

and do you know what it was alastair campbell, who's still a big force in his party, who said it's theff test if a story stays around for more than nine days, it ain't going away. this is not going away. >> no, i know, but i actually think that when you strip it all away in the scheme of things, i just don't think it's that important. people care when it's actual corruption, when it's people who are having undue influence. fine. there is no evidence that anybody, as a result of this has any undue , result of this has any undue, undue influence. well, i actually think i actually , i actually think i actually, i actually think i actually, i actually i actually think so clothing i wish they hadn't done that. the football tickets i would completely defend i think it's totally fine for the prime minister. no, no, no, hang on for the prime minister to watch his football team in, by the way, in the director's box i think is totally fine. is it because because he's taking money from people who have something they need to gain from him? >> because they are looking at football regulations, and s

he's worried about the lies being spread online, even though he and alastair campbell were the kings. make it make sense . there war. make it make sense. there is now a concerted effort to silence and shut down debate, particularly around pressing issues which affect ordinary people. mass migration , net people. mass migration, net zero, which has become a religious cult that can't be challenged, that can't be criticised . the anti—science criticised. the anti —science madness criticised. the anti—science madness of trans ideology and the absurd demonisation of the west . none of these the absurd demonisation of the west. none of these things stand up to any real scrutiny, but it is the scrutiny that the negroni quaffing north london liberal elites want to end for example, bbc lifer jonathan dimbleby became a figure of ridicule this week with the following tweet. here's what he tweeted i post infrequently, he says, and this is my last. elon musk's toy has been colonised by narcissists. the brain dead and advertisements. i shall nonetheless miss the wit and wisdom of the best, among w

adviser 12 weeks into a government that is a massive problem going back at 20 years or so, when alastair campbell story, he resigned because he knew he'd gone too far , and she needs to just get far, and she needs to just get back in her box as far as i'm concerned. on dominic cummings he was earning more than sue gray in real terms four years ago. so let's be let's just be very clear about that. he's no saint either. >> let me i'm not saying he's a saint, but this is hypocritical. and they're supposed to be the do good party for the working man. this is outrageous. i have to say. and you will see. you will see at the labour conference. you will see tomorrow the outrage . i think tomorrow the outrage. i think you're going to see a lot of people not happy. your members are going to be really upset, though. >> andy is that not a worry for you as a supporter right now when they're briefing against each other and there's clearly a power imbalance within number 10, i don't think i think there's a power clash. >> you've got sue gray and morgan mcsweeney, and they are sort of on equal footing, and they

when alastair campbell used to head up the operation in number 10, his view was that policy and presentationoin. yeah. the important thing is you get your message right, whether it's to do with clothes, winter fuel, whatever it is. and they're not getting it is. and they're not getting it right at the moment. >> what's so interesting? throughout the whole month of august, we were seeing these leaked stories and we were not heanng leaked stories and we were not hearing about what the potential details of gb energy could look like, what the policy, the government, what kind of policies the government want to look. >> noises off were drowning out all the others. >> absolutely. and we all know that the month of august, as journalists is a little bit quiet. it's, you know, parliamentary recess. it's we call it the silly period where, you know, all these stories sort of come out and at the exact same time, the government should be at the forefront of leading on the narrative. and they just haven't. >> what's going i mean, i mean, the blair era, it was brilliantly stage managed, wasn't it ? but i t

problem for me is that when the adviser, when any adviser becomes the story and this happened with alastair campbellend of his time in tony blair's number 10, when the adviser becomes the story, that is a problem because it's overshadowing the good work that the government is trying to do. >> and the fact is, andy, she's become the story. and they've only been in power not even three months. right. it's over. her getting involved in in very overtly political appointments. was she using her influence to try and get a £370 million football stadium built in a part of ireland where she used to work? i mean, she i cannot recall if chief of staff, who's had such a high profile and such a negative profile. so quickly. >> yeah. and it's not sustainable. and i do think that part of it is that in that role, you're going to upset some people because you're the prime minister's gatekeeper. you are necessarily sort of keeping people from having the access that they would like to the pm. however, she's obviously rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way. i think what's really interesting, looking at the story on, i

it's jonathan powellj a alastair campbell p peter mandelson, and there seems to be no one there, no oneis for your own sake. we know you're not cheating or thieving or anything, but don't do it. and this is what baffles me is just the lack of judgement. so, so he hasn't got a moral compass of his own. >> he needs somebody else to tell him that. don't accept free. i don't think he should be accepting free taylor swift tickets. i don't think he should be accepting free tickets for arsenal at all. he's got a massive salary compared to most people. he's also got a property portfolio worth millions. so he's not a poor man. so why on earth would he allow another man to give his wife ? to give his wife? >> it's not good enough. only thing where your lovely list of crimes against humanity you're reading out against him. the only thing where i just jibbed a bit , looking only thing where i just jibbed a bit, looking at only thing where i just jibbed a bit , looking at what only thing where i just jibbed a bit, looking at what has happenedin bit, looking at what has happened in terms of assassina

behind the scenes, the chief of staff or whoever else it is becomes the story we'll remember when alastair campbellecame the story for tony blair. well he didn't last much longer after that point. you remember when dominic cummings came the story behind boris johnson? he didn't last much longer past that point, but i think there's a deeper issue here than the fact that sue gray has paid more than the prime minister and has, by all accounts, had quite a lot of control over downing street moving people's offices around to try and play personnel off one another and all of the rest of it that we've been reading . of it that we've been reading. the deeper story, as you alluded to, is the bitter factional war that appears to be playing out behind that shining black door to number 10. it seems that there are various groups. simon case of course, the cabinet secretary in this war with sue gray, the prime minister's chief of staff. but also the prime minister's election guru, morgan mcsweeney, the man sort of behind the starmer project, seems to be in loggerheads in this sort of war, with sue gray as well.

people who seem to be either too young or naive enough to think that the party of labour, of alastair campbellson would bring an end to backstabbing and leaking and mushiness at the top of politics. this is politicians reverting to type and taking gifts from the rich and famous. >> i mean, that's not a new thing. >> mandelson was barely ever on dry land. he was on so many yachts back in the day. so i don't understand. >> interesting point about this kind of increasing levels of scrutiny and increasing levels of outrage when people don't appear to stand up to that scrutiny. if we go back to former politicians like churchill, people who are seen as national heroes, they face no such scrutiny and yet were seen as colourful characters, good leaders. are we ever going to get back there ? get back there? >> i think there's a big problem, as we're talking about in the break of the fact that because there is this extra level of scrutiny, there's this offence, archaeology, that any politician of some colour character, someone with a bit of substance, they could easily be weeded out. and i think if you

alastair campbell famously leaked almost everything out of the cabinet office in order to sort of a boing more of it, because if it actually listened to and got some feedback on its policies before it decided to freeze its pensioners to death in the winter, then they might avoid being so unpopular. but i just think that you can't stop leaking in government. it is part of the function of government , unfortunately, government, unfortunately, because they need to know whether the public and whether the economy is going to respond well to what it does. and i just think this whole furore over simon case is just overblown and is now dragging in of course, sue gray as well as usual. >> but the actual issue is that if you're at the top of the civil service, you don't leak yourself. you get your juniors to do it. that's true. that's the tactical part. >> they're saying it's coming. i mean , obviously he's refuting mean, obviously he's refuting these claims. it's been very clear. he's saying there's no leaking coming out of my department. there's just fingers being pointed at him, which i thin