Years ago, not long after Tony Blair’s first landslide, I was asked by London Weekend Television to co-write a sitcom.
Years ago, not long after Tony Blair’s first landslide, I was asked by London Weekend Television to co-write a sitcom. The idea was to satirise New Labour, and it was cunningly set, not in the Houses of Parliament, but in a flat nearby shared by three Labour MPs.
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