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    House of cads

    Nov 01, 2020 2 minutes
    by GREG DIXON

    Here’s a question you never thought you’d be asked: is it possible for a prestige BBC drama to be a hate crime?

    Any unlikely thing seems possible in 2020, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that the answer is yes, at least according to one Tory politician in Britain.

    The first episode of the – it concerns the chicanery of a fictional Conservative Party minister – had barely finished airing when real-life Tory MP Andrew Bridgen was calling it a political hit job.

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