My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

His rapid rise and its accompanying stress led to alcohol abuse. Early and personal life
Alastair John Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Keighley Yorkshire son of a Scottish veterinary surgeon Donald Campbell and his wife Elizabeth. He is asked if it will be difficult to sack the person he most loves and cheriAlastair Campbells replying "I'm not sacking Alastair Campbell"
It is also hinted that the character of Malcolm Tucker from the BBC political satire comedy The Thick of It is loosely based on Campbell.

hardly underscrutinised" spin doctor. Campbell describes himself as a "communicator writer and strategist" on his website while others have described him as Labour's "unelected but.