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Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful.

Alastair Campbell

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Alastair Campbell
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 25
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Tony's [Blair] convinced I'm going to find God. I do have spiritual moments, but I don't think it's God.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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