Cabinet of the United Kingdom Minister to attend Cabinet meetings on a regular basis, notably Alastair Campbell in his capacity as Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003, and Jonathan Powell, the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, under Tony Blair, with a distinctly separate role from the Cabinet Secretary/Head of the Civil Service. A photograph is taken of each new Cabinet in the garden or drawing room at 10 Downing Street. The Cabinet meets on a regular basis, usually weekly on a Thursday morning notionally to discuss the most important issues of government policy, and to make decisions. Despite the custom
Alastair Campbell not be the interviewer. He is an occasional presenter for LBC radio, and hit the headlines when his daughter Grace called into a debate on feminism to challenge Campbell's feminist credentials. In May 2016 the "International Business Times" website announced that Campbell had joined them as a columnist. In 2016, Campbell presented an episode of "Into The Wild" for the BBC with wildlife presenter Gordon Buchanan.They visited the Isle of Mull where Gordon grew up and Tiree where Alastair's father was brought up, and where Alastair spent much of his childhood. In March 2017 the newspaper "The New European" announced