Well, well, well. It’s not often that onetime New Labour spinner Alastair Campbell expresses any form of contrition. But after he made a pretty startling claim about the late political activist Charlie Kirk – who was shot and killed last week – the communications director-turned-podcaster has been forced to concede that on this occasion, like on many others, he was in fact wrong.

Speaking on his podcast The Rest of Politics , Campbell bleated within hours of Kirk’s death that ‘it is important that we don’t lose sight of some of the views that he expressed because they were horrific’. He went on to fume: ‘I remember one clip I saw of him saying that, literally reading the bible, gay people should be stoned to death.’ A rather horrible thing to think but it transpires that, er, Kirk did n

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