Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s X Factor spoof I Can’t Sing! was hamstrung by having Simon Cowell as a producer. No such conflict in the duo’s follow-up, Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera), which subjects the messianic ex-PM to a prolonged and enjoyable ribbing.
Charlie Baker brings the gormless, bopping vitality of Jack Black to the role of the former MP for Sedgefield, who drifts into public life to meet his hero “Mick Jaggers”. Returning to No 10 deranged and dishevelled after pledging solidarity with George W Bush over Iraq, he resembles a man who has sold his soul or had the most debauched weekend of his life. Or both.
