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Television

Channel 4's The Coalition reviewed: heroically free of cynicism

Plus: Trevor McDonald sits down with the Mafia and hears of the sad decline of the Mob

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

In a late schedule change, Channel 4’s Coalition was shifted from Thursday to Saturday to make room for Jeremy Paxman interviewing the party leaders. With most dramas, that would mean I’d have to issue the sternest of spoiler alerts for anybody reading before the programme goes out. In this case, though, you know the story already — because Coalition was a dramatisation of what happened in Westminster in the days after the last general election.

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