So, if you were a minister for aviation on a trip to Czechoslovakia in 1962, right in the middle of the Cold War, and you were taken out to dinner by a bombshell blonde, would or would not the first thing that came into your head be the word: honeytrap?
Well, not if you were John Stonehouse, the ill-fated Labour minister who is now remembered chiefly for his bungled attempt to fake his own death on Miami Beach to start a new life with his mistress Sheila Buckley (played here by Emer Heatley). This imagined but entirely plausible scene is a not-unreasonable assumption about the course of events that led to the unfortunate Stonehouse becoming a Czech spy.
