Everybody is talking about the Alistair Campbell moment when the great man,that's Campbell appeared to break down over Marr's questioning over the dodgy dossier.
Having been already grilled about the similarities in his book to the relationship with Blair,he seemed genuinely upset about the whole affair and the way the media are continously on the back of his "friend"
People are asking whether this was genuine emotion or pure theatre,the cynics pointing to Gordon Brown's disembling in front of Piers Morgan as part of the soft heart stratgey to the party.
I don't agree in the theatre,I think he was genuinely upset by the continous relentive pressure of the media over this subject.He clearly feels that the Blair government took the right decisions in 2002-3
Whilst Marr was back to his best as an incisive political interviewer,an opportunity he has missed on numerous occassions recently,in some ways I agree with Campbell
"I don’t think the media is interested in truth now... (it's) interested in settling scores, settling agenda,"
It wasn't the only bit of incisive bit of political interviewing as Marr put William Hague under pressure over Lord Ashcroft.
Hague described him as a close friend but failing,despite repeated opportunities to answer the golden question.Does he pay UK tax.
Nevertheless putting up a dramatic riposte to the Ashcroft controversy by comparing it to the Trade Union funding of the Labour party,hardly to my mind a fair comparison
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