Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

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Plus: a fascinating play about Enoch Powell at the Park Theatre

issue 14 October 2017

Labour of Love is the new play by James Graham, the poet laureate of politics. We’re in a derelict colliery town in the East Midlands where the new MP is a malleable Blairite greaser, David Lyons. He arrives to find the office in crisis. The constituency agent, Jean, has handed in her notice but David is smitten by her acerbic tongue and her brisk management style so he asks her to stay.

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