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Durrani, Arif (13 January 2014). "Alastair Campbell succeeds Piers Morgan at GQ". Campaign. Archived from the original on 14 April 2017 . Retrieved 13 April 2017. Kazakhstan". Freedom House. Archived from the original on 11 February 2013 . Retrieved 5 July 2013. Alastair's Turf Moor Diaries". football.fanhouse.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 December 2009 . Retrieved 30 December 2009. This was Campbell not being mendacious, but simply faulty. One diarist, scribbling away late at night after long and stressful days, and writing from a self-serving perspective, will not be wholly trustworthy. This is a problem with all the memoirs from actors of the New Labour years, those which have already been published, and those which have yet to come. While diligent journalists and historians try to gather as much evidence from as many different witnesses as they can, the political diarist relies on just one uncorroborated source: themselves. Campbell made his first appearance on the BBC One political discussion programme Question Time on 27 May 2010. At the opening of the edition, presenter David Dimbleby said that the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition would not allow a frontbench member of the government to appear on the show unless Campbell was dropped. The BBC refused to do this. The government later accused the BBC of behaving improperly for allowing Campbell to appear as a more in-depth version of his diaries was due to be published the following week, and a Downing Street spokesman told The Guardian, "Campbell seemed to be on because he's flogging a book next week, so the BBC haven't behaved entirely properly here." [34] Campbell said that he had waited until Labour were in opposition before appearing on the show and that the date was a coincidence as it was the only time he was free. He suggested the discord was part of a Conservative anti-BBC agenda. [34] The minister who had been scheduled to appear was the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury David Laws, who Campbell produced a picture of during the programme. Three days later, Laws resigned his post following revelations about possible irregularities in his expenses claims in The Telegraph the day before.