Is anyone watching this BBC drama serial? It's jolly good. It stars Hugh Laurie as Peter Laurence, a right-wing Tory cabinet minister and unprincipled, corrupt rat-bag (that last phrase is tautological), who has a wife, a mistress, two tiresome acknowledged daughters, one at University and one working for an environmental agency, and, as we discover in episode three, an older (30ish) unacknowledged, mixed-race daughter, the result of an earlier affair, who's in prison for fraud. She is much more likeable, imo, than the other two. He is angling for the PM's job, but his chickens are coming home to roost. The PM is a Thatcheresque woman called Dawn, and there's no sign of a pandemic, so it's essentially an alternative present. He's supposed to be the MP for Hastings. I wonder what Sally-Ann Hart, the actual MP for Hastings and Rye, thinks about that.
Anyway, all episodes are on iplayer, which is where I'm watching it, and are recommended.
