Alastair Campbell on war, w**kers and winning elections
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
A warning: explicit language from the very start of the episode.
Alastair Campbell meets the The News Agents in the ultimate podcast mash up. We ask him about his "wanker switch" and what happens when things go wrong live on air. And about the Starmer strategy for quiet winning.
We also talk war, Murdoch and tactical voting.
Later we hear from Jacob Rees Mogg who admits the Voter ID legislation was gerrymandering.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Alison Campbell was, in his heyday, something of a political bruiser. |
| 0:17.5 | But he knows, at times, he can sound like a wanker. And so he thinks he's got a way, |
| 0:24.4 | a button he can press, to deal with it. You've got what you now call a W switch off. What happened |
| 0:32.2 | to the wanker switch on Thursday night? On news night. Sometimes the scale of the wankerdom just overwhelms it. |
| 0:39.9 | We'll be unpacking that with him and an awful lot more. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:48.6 | The newsagents. |
| 0:50.6 | It's John. |
| 0:51.6 | It's Emily. |
| 0:52.2 | And we have a stranger in our midst. |
| 0:55.9 | Someone has wandered into the newsagents podcast studio, who I think has his own podcast, but we're not going to talk about that. |
| 1:04.8 | The rest is newsagents. |
| 1:06.9 | That's our matchup. |
| 1:07.8 | There's a little chuckling going on from a Mr. Alastair Campbell |
| 1:11.3 | who's come in, replete with his Burnley tie-on and looking very smart. |
| 1:15.6 | Welcome. |
| 1:16.1 | Thank you, John. Thank you, Emily. |
| 1:17.7 | Well, you've been everywhere, haven't you? |
| 1:19.1 | No. |
| 1:19.7 | This is the only thing I'm doing for the entire hour. |
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