Lord Pannick – Gina Miller’s QC in her successful court cases against the governments of Theresa May and Boris Johnson – predicted that my play, Bloody Difficult Women, would win the approval of those who approved of her cases, and the disapproval of those who didn’t.
That has proved true enough, looking at the polarised reviews, but it has pleased me to see the play win around a number of Tory MPs, including Giles Watling, the son of the actor Jack Watling, who called it “a really glorious piece”. Greg Hands, the energy minister, has even been bigging it up on Twitter.
It also touched me that Geordie Greig – the former Daily Mail editor whom I have attacked in this column in the past – turned out to see it and appeared to enjoy very much Andrew Woodall’s performance as Paul Dacre.
That Pannick and the likes of Bill Kenwright, Jenny Seagrove, John Bercow, Michael Grandage, Kevin Maguire, Adam Boulton, Jonathan Maitland, Peter Duncan, Matt Kelly and especially Gina and Alan Miller all managed to overcome the travel chaos caused by last Tuesday’s tube strike to make the first night meant the world to me.
Lord Pannick’s bloody good predictions
Gina Miller’s QC anticipated that fans of her and her court cases against the government would approve of the production of Bloody Difficult Women, and that those who didn't, would not
