Original sentence: Alastair Campbell, then-political editor of the Daily Mirror and later press secretary to Tony Blair, was reported to have punched him when he described Robert Maxwell as "Captain Bob, Bob, Bob" after Maxwell - the Mirror's proprietor - death in 1991.He has said that the Labour government's change of attitude to The Guardian'' (from hostility towards grudging friendship as the government lost "fair weather friends" on other papers) was demonstrated by the fact that he and his colleague, and successor as political editor, Patrick Wintour, were now offered a cup of tea when they met Tony Blair.He made an early appearance on Have I Got News For You in 1991 though he has not appeared on the programme again.In February, 2006 White detailed the changing attitudes of the Labour Party to The Guardian (publicly identifying himself as a Labour supporter) and of his defence of Labour at the time of the SDP split
Edited sentence: Alastair Campbell, then-political editor of the Daily Mirror and later press secretary to Tony Blair, was reported to have punched him when he described Robert Maxwell as "Captain Bob, Bob, Bob" after Maxwell - the Mirror's proprietor - apparently committed suicide by throwing himself off his yacht in 1991.He has said that the Labour government's change of attitude to the Guardian (from hostility towards grudging friendship as the government lost "fair weather friends" on other papers) was demonstrated by the fact that he and his colleague, and successor as political editor, Patrick Wintour, were now offered a cup of tea when they met Tony Blair.He made an early appearance on Have I Got News For You'' in 1991 though, surprisingly, was never invited back.However, frankly he remains a terrible, terrible lefty.In February, 2006 White wrote of the changing attitudes of the Labour Party to the Guardian (publicly identifying himself as a Labour supporter) and of his defence of Labour at the time of the SDP split