Alastair Campbell press secretary. Having recovered and become teetotal, he told Blair about his alcoholism, which Blair did not see as a problem. In his autobiography, Tony Blair would later reveal that Campbell had coined the name "New Labour" and described Campbell as a "genius". Campbell wrote the speech that led to the party's review of Clause Four and the birth of "New Labour". In addition to being press spokesman, Campbell was Blair's speech writer and chief strategist. He oversaw new co-ordination and rebuttal systems which gave birth to a communications machine which became both feared and respected, and the model for
Alastair Campbell (bioethicist) Award by the Hastings Centre. In 2011, Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2018, the Singaporean Government awarded him the Public Service Medal (Friends of Singapore) as part of its National Day Awards. Alastair Campbell (bioethicist) Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, ThD, FRSE (born 1938) is a British theologian and bioethicist. His is currently Emeritus Director and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the