Alastair Campbell

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.