LBC broadcaster Iain Dale has moved his Edinburgh Festival ‘All Talk’ series to Zoom, and yesterday he spoke to Alastair Campbell – the two clashed from the start. The former spin-doctor was seated in a strange, beige-tinted room which looked like a sauna.
Dale asked where Campbell was, doubtless knowing that he likes to spend the summer holidays in the south of France.
I’m enjoying the last few months of the UK being part of [what is] probably the greatest peace-keeping institution on the planet.
Dale facetiously responded to Campbell, ‘Oh. You’re in Nato’.
Asking about his support for the People’s Vote campaign and attempts to thwart Brexit, Campbell said that he regretted not having played a larger role during the 2015 campaign and branded the result ‘a complete train-crash coming down the track.’ He held the Eurosceptic press responsible: ‘Murdoch, Barclay Brothers, Daily Mail, Sun, Express.’
Dale retorted, ‘All the media organisations you were desperate to get to support Tony Blair’.
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