The New Statesman
Created by Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran
On ITV1
A caustic, idea-driven political satire built on irreverent comedy and contempt for Conservative greed and hypocrisy.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Essence
Ensemble
Rik Mayall
Alan B'Stard
Michael Troughton
Piers Fletcher-Dervish
Marsha Fitzalan
Sarah B'Stard
Steve Nallon
Mrs. Thatcher
John Carlin
House of Commons Speaker
Nick Stringer
Crippen
Vivien Heilbron
Beatrice Protheroe
Rowena Cooper
Norman Bormann
Peter Sallis
Sidney Bliss
Charles Gray
Roland Gidleigh-Park
John Nettleton
Sir Stephen Baxter
Judith Hibbert
Chantelle
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