Alastair Campbell finally admits what Tony Blair got wrong

No one expected this day to come – but here we are. Alastair Campbell, former Labour spinner and full-time Tony Blair fanboy, has – possibly for the first time ever – admitted his ex-boss and forever idol did actually get something wrong. Talk about a curveball!

Speaking on the latest episode of his podcast with Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Campbell revealed the one thing on which he did not see eye to eye to with Blair. Responding to a listener question on the ex-Labour PM’s remarks that ‘it’s hard to see what the objective reasons’ are for Britain now ‘spending vastly more on mental health’ than in the past, the former spin doctor turned on his friend:

I didn’t actually like what he said – and I think at a time when we’re struggling to keep mental health properly on the NHS agenda, and I think we’re going backwards in terms of the media debate around mental health as well.