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Who is Alastair Campbell, what job did he do and who's his famous comedian daughter?

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Alastair Campbell has found fame away from his former role as an adviser in Downing Street after becoming a prominent podcaster.He is also a broadcaster, with his latest programme - Make Me Prime Minister - airing on Channel 4 tonight (September 27) at 9.15pm.Described by Radio Times as “The Apprentice does politics”, the show puts 12 Brits who think they have what it takes to run the country through their paces.Alongside Conservative peer Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the pair will put the dozen candidates for the top job through a series of tasks designed to test their leadership skills, decision-making, resilience and integrity.From his journalist beginnings to top of the podcast charts, here is a look at the anti-Brexit campaigner's career.Alastair Campbell is best known for his role as former British prime minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications - aka chief spin doctor.He had been a journalist first at the Daily Mirror before moving to the now-defunct newspaper Today, where he was poached by Blair in 1994 to run the Labour Party's press operation following his election as leader of the opposition.Campbell was part of the team that modernised Labour and helped the party win a landslide at the 1997 general election.After the death of Princess Diana later that year, the spin doctor assisted the then-prime minister in his speech in which she was dubbed the “People’s Princess”.His time in Downing Street was dogged by his involvement in what was later labelled the “Dodgy Dossier” in February 2003, in which it claimed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.Mr Campbell was accused of "sexing up" the document, as weapons were never found before or after the 2003 Allied.

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