TV comedy show gives Blair and Thatcher a fictional fling

By The Newsroom
Published 14th Oct 2011, 01:01 BST
Tony Blair and Baroness Thatcher are seen sharing pillow talk and a post-coital cigarette as Labour gets into bed with the Conservatives in a controversial new tele-vision comedy.

The Channel 4 show, The Hunt For Tony Blair, portrays the two longest-serving prime ministers of modern times having an affair.

Jennifer Saunders plays Lady Thatcher, dripping with jewels, while comic actor Stephen Mangan plays Blair, covered in lipstick marks.

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The film, to be broadcast tomorrow at 9pm, has been made by the Comic Strip team. Saunders is reprising her role as the former Tory leader after a previous Comic Strip outing in Red Nose Of Courage in 1992.