The Hunt For Tony Blair

The Hunt for Tony Blair, which received its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival on Friday, has Stephen Mangan playing the former prime minister in the 1950s-style film noir pastiche. He is a fugitive responsible for a string of killings including the former foreign secretary Robin Cook. And he is implicated in the death of John Smith.
Mangan, who starred in Channel 4's Green Wing and played Dirk Gently in a recent BBC adaptation of the Douglas Adams detective novel, appears in an all-star cast including Jennifer Saunders as Lady Thatcher, Harry Enfield as Alastair Campbell and Robbie Coltrane as the detective on Blair's trail. Blair takes refuge with Thatcher – played as a cross between Gloria Swanson and Bette Davis – whom he discovers at home watching old newsreels of the Falklands war. The pair are shown sharing a post-coital cigarette. "I'm so in love with you," she tells Blair. "I won my war. You didn't."