★★★★☆
“Hooray!” I bet no one said when they saw Brexit: The Uncivil War in the TV listings. “We get the never-ending fiasco that is Brexit all day on the news and now it is rendered in drama too. More Brexit, please!”
It just goes to show. Because James Graham’s drama was rollickingly good entertainment, in a heart-sinking “oh, but this is still our real-life car crash” kind of way.
It wasn’t really the story of the Leave and Remain campaigns, it was the story of DC — that’s Dominic Cummings, not David Cameron, who didn’t even merit a part, so boring and irrelevant did Graham consider him to be. Cummings, I imagine, will be pretty flattered by his portrayal, brilliantly done by
