“The hunt is on for stars to play party leaders,” says the report’s standfirst.
Well, casting this drama is fun for all the family. Here are my humble suggestions:
- Gordon Brown – David Morrissey (who captured Brown so well in The Deal)
- Ed Balls – Peter Kay (who would bring the right sort of rotund jollity to the part)
- Alastair Campbell – Peter Capaldi (everyone thinks that Malcolm Tucker is Campbell, so why not?)
- Peter Mandelson – Christopher Lee (but only because Peter Cushing is dead)
- Andrew Adonis – Michael McIntyre (looks nothing like Adonis, but can you think of anyone more irritating?)
- Nick Clegg – Colin Firth (to be cast as punishment for deserting the Liberal Democrats as soon as the going got tough)
- Paddy Ashdown – Rory Bremner (a dead ringer)
- Chris Huhne – Leslie Phillips (who has made a career of playing ageing Lotharios)
- David Laws – Chris Packham (a TV nature programme presenter and not an actor, admittedly, but the resemblance is uncanny)
- Andrew Stunell – John Le Mesurier (do you think that’s wise?)
