Former spin doctor taken to task by daughter for calling women ‘birds’
Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell was left redfaced after his daughter grilled him live on-air over his feminism credentials.
The New Labour strategist, who was standing in for Nigel Farage on LBC, was debating feminism when his daughter Grace called in to query some of his behaviour towards women.
Grace, who is a writer and film maker, told her dad he needed to “unpick” certain behaviours in order to “truly be a feminist”.
She said: “You still call women birds, which I think you don’t even think about the impact that has. If you truly want to be a feminist, women aren’t birds. Birds are birds, they fly. Women can’t fly.
“You call women, women. You don’t call them birds.” Mr Campbell responded by saying he did not remember using the term, but pledged not to do so again.
Grace then went on to criticise her father for not doing jobs around the house.
She said: “I’ve noticed what you do, which a lot of men do, they make up the excuses of ‘I can’t’.
“Instead of saying you can’t, just learn how to.”
Mr Campbell said he was “very impractical”, adding: “Anything else you want to tell your dad off for?”.
His daughter ended by telling him that he needed to feel more comfortable talking about periods.