Alastair Campbell, "Nigel Farage is a consequential figure in British politics, I doubt Brexit would have happened without him" "History will say the three key drivers of Brexit: David Cameron who called the referendum, Boris Johnson who led one of the campaigns and Nigel Farage who laid the ground for it" "Camerons gone, Johnsons gone, and the fact that some people are talking about Nigel Farage becoming the next prime minister, what does that say about our politics?" "The guy who has helped to inflict the very thing, Brexit, that has weakened our economy, weakened our standing in the world, that we think he should be prime minister? "It's a form of madness" "The populism and lies of the Brexit campaigners" "Brexit was all about taking back control. Partly because we lost our membership of the European Union and so the Dublin Convention, we've lost control" "Partly because so many Europeans left Britain, went back, doctors, nurses, and carers, we then had the Boris wave of immigration, people from other countries, particularly India, Bangladesh" "We also have people from Ukraine and Hong Kong which I think the public are more willing to accept" "The truth is, we have to get the balance right between an aging population, where we're going to need immigrants to do the jobs that British people don't want to do, and we need high skill immigrants" "Charlatans like Farage are always going to make immigration the issue because they haven't got much else to say about anything else" "Andy Burnham is very pro European, in his heart he knows Brexit is a disaster, knows that we have to somehow fix it" "I think it will be a much closer relationship with the European Union"