Alistair Campbell slams the PM's "Putin-like" journalist ban
February 4, 2020
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as posted by the channelAlistair Campbell told James O'Brien that Boris Johnson's journalist ban is "what Trump is doing in an even more insidious way - this is what Putin does."
Tony Blair's former director of communications said he'd never stopped a journalist from lobbying No 10 and expressed surprise that an aide to Boris Johnson banned certain media outlets from a Brexit briefing yesterday.
Mr Campbell said that compared to his time in government Boris Johnson "gets it so easy" from the media.
"I was pleased that the other journalists refused to go along with it yesterday," he said, referring to other high-profile journalists that boycotted the meeting in response to the ban.
"This is a strategy. This is what Trump is doing in an even more insidious way, this is what Putin does. It basically is a way of trying to say the only voices worth listening to are the voices in power. They clearly don't care."
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