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Alastair Campbell plays bagpipes and thinks Keir Starmer 'isn't boring'

FORMER Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell said he thinks Keir Starmer “isn’t boring” at this year’s Journalists' Charity press lunch.

The National (Scotland)

Boldness and hope are the watchwords for Labour

Letters: Warren Brown, Jeff Rooker, Frank Jackson, Les Bright and Robert Gibbs on lessons Keir Starmer can learn from the party’s past and from last week’s byelection in Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Labour warned poll lead more fragile than it seems as Tory unpopularity ‘not enough’ to win election

Keir Starmer warned not to be complacent on eve of Labour conference

The Independent UK

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Starmer urged to be less cautious after suggesting he may not reverse HS2 cuts

The Labour leader accused the Government of taking a ‘wrecking ball to this project’.

The Independent UK

‘It was electrifying’: the inside story of Labour’s 1997 election landslide

Paranoia, relentless activity, infighting – the people who saw it all look back on the dizzying days that made political history

The Guardian - UK

Labour figures from 1997 victory warn Starmer against cautious approach

Exclusive: People involved in Tony Blair’s victory believe party needs to set out much clearer policy platform to win voters’ trust

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s voice campaigners should heed the lessons of what went wrong after the UK’s Brexit vote

We learned the hard way the importance of clear leadership, an emotive argument and to get out of our bubble

The Guardian - AU

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Lord Haworth obituary

Senior Labour official and historian who was instrumental in the party’s general election victory in 1997

The Guardian - UK

Pat McFadden: the most powerful Labour politician most have never heard of

Role preparing for election will see McFadden shape party’s direction, but it is likely to be done quietly

The Guardian - UK

Huw Edwards: the presenter at centre of the BBC’s new crisis

Huw Edwards is facing the end of his broadcasting career after he was named by his wife as the presenter at the centre of a sexual impropriety scandal that has dominated headlines.

The Week

Nicky Campbell among broadcasters voicing compassion for Huw Edwards

Huw Edwards’ wife, Vicky Flind, said he is ‘suffering from serious mental health issues’ and receiving in-patient care.

The Independent UK

Huw Edwards: Dan Walker and Alastair Campbell among those sending support to ‘superb broadcaster’

A statement from Huw Edwards’ wife, Vicky Flind, said he is ‘suffering from serious mental health issues’ at this time

Evening Standard

TV presenters and politicians react to news about BBC's Huw Edwards

'There was no criminality, but perhaps a complicated private life. That doesn’t feel very private now'

Wales Online

Sunday Brunch chaos as Tim Lovejoy forced to apologise over Alastair Campbell swear

Alastair Campbell, who worked as Tony Blair’s spokesperson and the Labour Party’s communications director, now hosts the hugely successful podcast The Rest is Politics with former Tory MP Rory Stewart

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The Guardian - UK

So George Osborne has a new podcast. What do the victims of his austerity policies get?

Entertainment launders reputations. No wonder washed-up politicians are so keen to invest in this great speech bubble, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Independent UK

Alastair Campbell says destructive campaigns are putting people off politics

The podcaster and former New Labour spin doctor said MPs needed to do more to look after their mental health.

The Guardian - UK

Best of frenemies: can George Osborne and Ed Balls’s blokey bantz erase austerity’s scars?

The former adversaries are launching an economics podcast. Somehow I doubt there will be a reckoning with the past

Evening Standard

OPINION - Alastair Campbell: The public needs to know what change will mean for them

Setting out why a Labour government would be better must move to centre stage, Alastair Campbell writes in the Standard

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Chronicle Live

Gogglebox viewers not impressed with 'nauseating' new celebrity signing for latest series

A number of people took to social media to comment on the new TV critics on the Channel 4 show

Daily Mirror

Gogglebox viewers fume over controversial celebrity signing for latest series

Gogglebox viewers had the same complaint as they heard the news that Alastair Campbell and his daughter joined the panel of the Channel 4 show, with many taking to social media to fume about the new additions to the popular series

The Guardian - UK

Behold Waterstones Dad – and hurrah for Britain’s new demographic stereotype

The latest slicing of social segments is a floating voter and a welcome addition to the merry-go-round of political life, writes Andrew Anthony

The Guardian - UK

The Brexit Question Time’s audience backs up what our survey found: no regrets

Despite feeling that politicians have messed up, the leavers we heard from still think that Brexit has a future, say Anand Menon and Sophie Stowers of The UK in a Changing Europe

Evening Standard

Serpentine splashers to Hampstead’s Bobble Hat Brigade — meet London’s power swimming tribes

Cold water swimmers are swaggering and shivering around the capital, with distinct types gathering at each place. Robbie Smith has your guide to the venues, the people and the wet networking

The National (Scotland)

Tory ministers refuse to appear on Question Time Brexit special

TORY ministers have been accused of cowardice after it was revealed that no senior government representative will appear on a BBC Question Time…

Daily Mirror

'Cowardly' Tory ministers refuse to appear on Question Time Brexit special

Alastair Campbell, who will be appearing on the flagship BBC politics show in Clacton-on-Sea, said it is "quite something" that the government won't be represented in front of an audience made entirely of Leave voters

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