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S2, Ep5 How to Fail: Alastair Campbell

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

CHAPTER

The Failure of a Journalist

In 2010, you went on the Andrew Marshall show to promote your new book. But after a series of questions about Iraq and Gordon Brown, you said: 'I just can't be bothered with this anymore' It was almost like an out of body experience - I wasn't there. You got lots of texts afterwards from people who knew it was a "moment" And that's when you knew something had gone horribly wrong.

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