Tony Blair’s former controversial spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been unceremoniously expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections.
Campbell revealed that he had voted outside of party lines during the BBC’s election night broadcast on Sunday. On Tuesday the PR man said he was both “sad and disappointed” at his party’s decision, which he vowed to fight having taken legal counsel.
He claimed after the deed that his decision to vote for the Lib Dems was based on their platform in support of a second Brexit referendum, and that it was an attempt to persuade Labour to “do the right thing” regarding the party’s handling of Brexit.
Campbell alluded to precedent within his own party of members voting for other parties or causes including, most notably, when his former boss and Br
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