Tory treachery and Maggie the temptress: how 80s politics inspired a script for Brexit Britain by Jonathan Maitland

My play Dead Sheep, about Margaret Thatcher and Geoffrey Howe, already included a prime minister's downfall, a machinating wife and an ambitious blond maverick. Reworking it since the referendum has been a writer's dreamWhen I asked the BBC's former chief political correspondent John Sergeant for advice about my play Dead Sheep in 2014 he told me colourfully but gently that I was wasting my time. John, a former colle…

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