Comic Strip: The Hunt For Tony Blair

Comic Strip: The Hunt For Tony Blair
left to right: Nigel Planer as Peter Mandelson, Harry Enfield as Alistair Campbell, Jennifer Saunders as Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Mangan as Tony Blair, Robbie Coltrane as the Inspector, James Buckley as the Sergeant, Rik Mayall as Professor Predictor
Photograph: /Channel 4

More like Reservoir Dogs than cabinet colleagues. Tony and his team get all stylish Photograph: Channel 4

Nigel Planer's Mandelson and Stephen Mangan's Blair get in line for their make-up Photograph: Channel 4

Rik Mayall enjoys a joke at Stephen Mangan's expense. It could be the threads. Photograph: Channel 4

Peter Richardson directs Nigel Planer and Stephen Mangan Photograph: Joss Barratt/Channel 4

Harry Enfield gurns it up as Labour's master of spin (and notekeeping) Alistair Campbell Photograph: Channel 4

Alistair Campbell (Enfield) rocks the polo-neck look and thinks of Malcolm Tucker Photograph: Channel 4

Jennifer Saunders as Margaret Thatcher (with just a dash of 50s Hollywood glamour). Meryl Streep take note Photograph: Channel 4

Tony's decision to reform his band Ugly Rumours was a solitary one Photograph: Channel 4

Alistair Campbell (Harry Enfield) and Peter Mandelson (Nigel Planer), with Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan) listening in Photograph: Channel 4

Thinking and scheming and planning and dreaming … Nigel Planer as Peter Mandelson Photograph: /Channel 4

But a journey to where? The show sees Tony Blair on the run … • The Comic Strip presents … The Hunt for Tony Blair. Friday October 14, 9pm, Channel 4 Photograph: Channel 4