Campbell's daughter tackles him on air for 'calling women birds'

The former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell was grilled live on air by his daughter over his supposed feminism.

The New Labour strategist, who was sitting in for Nigel Farage on LBC, was debating feminism when Grace Campbell called in to query some of his behaviour towards women.

Grace, a writer and film-maker, told her father that he needed to “unpick” certain behaviours in order to “truly be a feminist”.

“You still call women birds ... you don’t even think about the impact that has,” she said. “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.”

Campbell responded by saying he did not remember using the term, but promised not to do so again.

His daughter went on to criticise him for not doing jobs around the house. “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.”

Campbell said he was “very impractical”, adding: “Anything else you want to tell your dad off for?”

Grace ended by telling him that he needed to feel more comfortable talking about periods. “If you really want to be a feminist you need to be able to talk about periods, periods are a natural thing.”

She added: “You’ve got to educate yourself on things, it’s work, you’ve got to really do that and really want to properly be a feminist.”

Campbell ended the call by attempting to joke about his daughter’s lack of football knowledge, saying: “I now want to educate you in football, you couldn’t even name three current Burnley players could you?”

Grace responded saying she didn’t see what political point that made – before Campbell closed the call by saying: “All right, Grace, okay, stop nagging me.”