Alastair Campbell denying the truth working for Jib?!

Former Blair aide Alastair Campbell denies working for Najib

By Shannon Teoh

October 27, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 ― Alastair Campbell, the man once called Tony Blair’s “unelected spin doctor”, moved today to deny reports that he had been appointed an adviser to Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Campbell (picture), who was the former British PM’s powerful director of strategy and communications, said on micro-blogging site Twitter that he has not even been to Malaysia, in response to suggestions that he recently visited Najib to advise the prime minister on his image.
“I see I have been spotted in Malaysia. Therefore I must be advising the government. Must have a double. Not been. Not advising. Fin d’histoire (Sic)(end of story),” he wrote this evening on his Twitter account @campbellclaret.
Whistleblower site Sarawak Report had cited sources as saying that Campbell, who gained infamy for the so-called Dodgy Dossier that sanctioned the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was in the capital recently to advivice Najib on strategies to win an upcoming general election.
The Malaysian Insider also reported last month that a group of political strategists that includes members of the team behind Blair’s“New Labour” campaign have started work to reinvent Najib as a moderate reformist.

The team is understood to be pushing a "Cool Najib" image to appeal to progressive voters as the PM prepares to lead his Barisan Nasional (BN) into elections for the first time.

The election as Britain’s PM of a relatively young Blair in 1997 was seen as a successful bid by his campaign to capitalise on the “Cool Britannia” era marked by a resurgence in British pop music acts, artists and fashion.

Blair’s New Labour movement that moved his party to the centre was closely associated with the “Cool Britannia” idea.

Najib has contracted a series of public relations firms, including APCO Worldwide, in an effort to burnish his personal and administration’s images locally and worldwide.

APCO’s time in Malaysia was marked by controversy after the opposition alleged the public relations firm was linked to Israel.

Putrajaya was also forced to end its RM96 million contract with British publicity firm FBC Media after an embarrassing exposé by Sarawak Report revealed Malaysian leaders routinely appeared in paid-for interviews on global television programmes.

Campbell, a former journalist, resigned from Blair's office in August 2003 after it was revealed that he ordered dossiers on Iraq's purported possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction to be altered to be consistent with the United States' stand.