![]() ![]() In the Commons, he parrots what Wilson says at home, he parrots what his wife, Barbara (played by Macfadyen’s real-life wife, Keeley Hawes), says. Matthew Macfadyen plays him as a heedless buffoon from the start. The problem for him, and the joy for viewers, is that Stonehouse is not very good at being a baddie. His solution was to fake his own death on a beach in Miami in 1974, before fleeing to Australia with his secretary and assuming a new, stolen identity. This fun and funny drama, high-spirited and revelling in its absurdities, retells the story of John Stonehouse, Labour MP for Walsall North, a former postmaster general and rising star of Harold Wilson’s government, who got himself in a spot of financial and espionage-based bother. (Perhaps the suitcase full of wine served a purpose beyond Downing Street?) With fortuitous timing, Stonehouse (ITV 1) is here with the vintage edition. ![]() L ast week, No 10 issued a statement regarding what it considered to be “very concerning” reports of MPs indulging in sex and excessive alcohol while on parliamentary trips abroad. ![]()
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