If Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s recent interview of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is anything to go by, I don’t think I’ll be watching The Rest is Politics again.

The interview started off okay. After noting Trump’s threat to punish Spain for refusing to let the US use military bases for attacks on Iran, Campbell invited Sánchez to speculate about what the punishment will look like. So far so good: it’s an important question that many of us here in Spain are asking. But instead of answering it, Sánchez talked about Greenland, Ukraine, the EU’s relationship with the US and the pressing need to strengthen the transatlantic relationship.  

Maybe, I was beginning to suspect, accuracy isn’t always Alastair’s top priority

Maybe, I was beginning to suspect, accuracy isn’t always Alastair’s top priority

Next a very earnest Rory Stewart asked what could have been done to achieve a more coordinated international response at the outbreak of war. Sánchez then proceeded to tell us that the war will bring casualties, instability, insecurity and an erosion of the welfare state just as the Iraq war did. All very ‘right on’........

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