Reports of Campbell departure ‘wishful thinking’

REPORTS that British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell is to quit have been dismissed by Downing Street as “wishful thinking”.

The claim by the BBC’s political editor Andrew Marr has prompted a new war of words between the corporation and Number 10.

Mr Marr predicted there would be “a new tone, a new mood, new people inside the Downing Street press operation” by this winter.