It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and Truss vie to outdo each other with right-wing awfulness, so fictional home secretary Asiya Rao (Aryana Ramkhalawon) angles to take the top job from a lame-duck prime minster by seeming as intolerant as possible. The playwright could have written it yesterday.
With an eye for a photo opp, Asiya has turned up at the white cliffs of Dover to launch an anti-immigration policy yet more cruel than the last one. I’m loth to mention her Project Womb, a plan to shield the UK behind a wall of radiation, in case it gives the current lot ideas.
