Mr. White Goes to Westminster
Fed-up with modern politics, journalist Ben White stands as an independent candidate at the 1997 General Election, thus getting himself involved in a scandal with a former, now married, flame, who also happens to be an MP.
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"Whatever one's opinion of the Tatton by election and the subsequent media treatment of the Hamiltons, 'Mr White...' repays watching due to the (as usual) sharply observed and excellent performances of Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie and Dervla Kirwan. This is a well-written and perfectly-staged comedy about an era of UK politics that is now unfairly overlooked due to current, intellectually lazy, disillusion about politics and politicians. Celia Imrie particularly, as the battle-axe on the battle-bus, ferocious and yet also a sympathetic character, shows the strength of her appeal as..."
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The characters played by Bill Paterson, Robert Duncan and Celia Imrie are plainly based respectively on journalist turned independent MP Martin Bell, disgraced Tory Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine Hamilton.
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Fed-up with modern politics, journalist Ben White stands as an independent candidate at the 1997 General Election, thus getting himself involved in a scandal with a former, now married, flame, who also happens to be an MP.