Alistair Campbell

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Someone wrote, upon hearing No 10’s most famous spin doctor had a shrink: “That must be quite a gig, being Alastair Campbell’s psychiatrist.”

But sitting opposite him and Fiona Millar on a sofa in their north London home, I’m thinking: “God that must be quite a thing, being Alastair Campbell’s partner and the mother of his three children.”

His aggression and tirades of invective are so famous Millar remembers hearing a passer-by comment: “There goes Goebbels.” He is the prototype angry spin doctor, upon whom all spin doctors since — including swearing Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It — are based. But raging in the office is one thing, it’s quite another at home.  …read the full article on the Evening Standard