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A Very British Coup
1988 · TV series · 55 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Alan Plater
Working-class, left-leaning Harry Perkins is elected PM. As he works to implement social change via democratic process, the conservatives and their allies quietly begin working to remove him. Perkins' goals include nuclear disarmament, the dissolution of newspaper monopolies, open government and the closure of all US military bases on UK soil. While many members of the govnerment oppose him, he finds some support in Home Secretary Joan Cook and key members of his staff.
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That already happened a while ago (though MI5, not GCHQ), according to this guy[1] and several other "theorists" (viz. [2])
MI5 themselves beg to differ[3] (though they don't address Wallace's allegations directly, it seems.)
And the whole idea, with a fictional PM, was made into a novel by eminently monitorable ex-MP Chris Mullin[4] and then a miniseries.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson_conspiracy_theories 3: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/mi5-history/the-cold-war/the-wilson-plot.html 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_British_Coup