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18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Surely.

A looming general election, a party on the verge of a historic landslide, a leader with an iron-like

grip on message discipline waging war on complacency.

Sound familiar?

I'm you. Sound familiar.

A new dawn has broken as education, Education and education.

Tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

A politics of courage and honesty and trust.

Welcome to Lessons and a Landslide, an exclusive Red Box podcast series to mark 20 years since New

Labor swept to power.

In interviews with all of the key players in the 1997 campaign, recorded before Theresa

May triggered her snap election, we discuss life on the political front line

and the behind-the-scenes battles between Labour's big beasts.

In this episode I speak to Alator Campbell, the former journalist hired almost against his

will by Tony Blair to be his director of communications.

New Labour's attack dog describes how he waged a war against complacency even after the polls closed,

insist that being cuddlier with journalists wouldn't have delivered the same result

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