This Hour Has 22 Minutes publicity for the show and contributed to the general air of farce surrounding Day's election campaign. Day did, however, have a very appropriate response to the petition: ""Que será, será"." It was later revealed by Alastair Campbell, former aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, that Prime Minister Jean Cretien and the Liberal Party had come up with the idea- not Mercer or the show's writers. 2003–04 – Shaun Majumder, in character as "Raj Binder", was sent to report on the 2003 outdoors Edmonton Oilers and Montreal Canadiens old timers game, preceding the night's actual NHL regular season game, which
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