my name is alistair campbell. people will know me as having worked for tony blair. kenneth clarke, health secretary, home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer. how are you voting? i've decided i am going to back the people who have been early supporters of a people's vote. in terms of my own vote, i'm going to vote for keir starmer. so, you are campaigning for the labour party? lam. no... yes... and i will help dominic grieve if i can, and david gauke, i think. i have endorsed people like david gauke, anna soubry and dominic grieve. you and i, for the first time in our lives, although we get on perfectly well personally, you are definitely a labour man and i am definitely a conservative, both of us, in our ways, are actively supporting the same candidates in particular constituencies. parties are polarised, labour has gone left, tories have gone right. in both cases the left and the right haven't purged the parliamentary party as they wanted to. i was booted out for voting lib dem. ididn't... iknowi... ages ago. i knew when i lost the whip, i joined distinguish

my name is alistair campbell. i worked for tony blair. ken clarke, health secretary, home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer. how are you voting? i've decided i am going to back the people who have been early supporters of the people's vote. in terms of my own vote, i'm going to vote for keir starmer. so, are you campaigning for the other party? yes... and i will help dominic grieve and david gauke, i think. i have endorsed people like david gauke, anna soubry and dominic grieve. you and ifor the first david gauke, anna soubry and dominic grieve. you and i for the first time in our lives, although we get on perfectly well personally, you are definitely a labour man and i am definitely a labour man and i am definitely a labour man and i am definitely a conservative, both of us, in ourways, definitely a conservative, both of us, in our ways, our definitely a conservative, both of us, in ourways, ouractively supporting the same candidates in particular constituencies. parties are polarised, labour has gone left, tories have gone right

alistair campbell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i wa nt to welcome to hardtalk. thank you. want to begin with that election result is itself. when you saw it, isa result is itself. when you saw it, is a tribally labour man, labour all your life but who has run into a series of robbins withjeremy corbyn and his leadership, how did you respond to that result?” 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 as 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. i felt really sad, to sensed just going around the country. ifelt really sad, to be honest. i felt sad for lots of reasons. i felt very sad that boris johnson who i've known for a very long time and who i really don't think is a suitable guide to be prime minister of one of the great countries of the world, is going to be in power with a l

kenneth clarke and alistair campbell.uestion for you, have you heard of something called saltomophobia. i'm going to tell something that there was a medical condition, and you were health secretary, and you should know this and it's called saltomophobia. ah, bowled middle stump. i don't know many people with that. it's an irrational fear of ketchup. it's true. i have my doubts as to whether that isa i have my doubts as to whether that is a true thing. we are live until 11 is a true thing. we are live until ii this morning. really want to hear from you if you have bought diazepam pills online. you may not know it, perhaps you do, but you are breaking the law and one of the reasons people say they are doing is because they are addicted to these pills, they are addicted to these pills, they help treat anxiety. michael contacted us on twitter and said he had been prescribed these in emergencies only. i suffer with anxiety on a daily basis and he goes on to say that diazepam is useful for when you are extremely on edge but not

today, alistair campbell — who was once tony blair's spin doctor — meets ken clarke — a conservativeabour supporter, but now they've both been kicked out of their parties. so will they find they have far more in common than they ever thought? here's how they got on. my name is alastair campbell. i think people will know me as having worked for tony blair. so, yeah, i've always been labour. kenneth clark, health secretary, home secretary, and chancellor 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

what is alistair campbell's view, he is with andrew. let's find out, he is here, just like magic.ing points with heard from john mcdonald sitting in that seat several hours ago that this terrible result for labour which is what it looks like it will be is all down to brexit and i suggest that is the line they are taking because they can then argue, we can continue with corbynism, not jeremy corbyn, but we can have corbynism withoutjeremy corbyn because brexit was so bad tonight. what. them from winning that argument? i don't think they will win the argument. they have control of the structures of the party that will help them in terms of securing some sort of legacy that politics but when you look at just some sort of legacy that politics but when you look atjust how bad these results are, this is notjust a defeat forjeremy corbyn, this is a defeat forjeremy corbyn, this is a defeat for the politics he represents and there are three places you can look it. anti—semitism, which wasn't handled properly and played a big part in the chief rabbi's intervention was a big moment. the sen