Alastair Campbell
Writer, Communicator and Podcaster
Alastair Campbell was official spokesman and director of communications and strategy in Tony Blair’s government from 1994 to 2003. He continued to act as an advisor to the Labour Party during subsequent election campaigns.
A consultant writer, strategist, and broadcaster, he is still engaged in politics and is a leading mental health advocate, as well as co-presenter of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics. He is the author of the number one Sunday Times bestsellers But What Can I Do?, Winners, and The Blair Years, eight volumes of diaries, a book on the Northern Ireland peace process, four novels, and two memoirs on living with depression. He is chairman of fundraising for Blood Cancer UK (formerly Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research), and a leading ambassador for the mental health campaign Time to Change.
He graduated from Cambridge University in modern languages, then went into journalism, principally with the Mirror Group, before taking up the post of press secretary for the Labour Party.
