Get Stilgoe ready as the telly Jezza

CHANNEL 4 was quick out of the traps after the 2010 election with its drama Coalition, about the unlikely “bromance” between David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Its writer James Graham now tells The Heckler he sees dramatic potential in this election, too, but it’s still obviously very much a work in progress and casting could prove a headache. I can offer some ideas: Richard Stilgoe as Corbyn, Glenn Close (with Cruella de Vil make-up) as May, and the puppet that appeared with Anthony Hopkins in Magic as Fallon. Mark Dexter, who memorably played Cameron in Coalition, tells me he wants a cameo, too: “A single heartrending scene of him staring at the TV as the results come in with an empty bottle of gin.”

VOTERS in Lincoln have been bemused by election leaflets extolling the virtues of Karen Buck.

Buck is actually the Labour candidate for Westminster North in London, and Lincoln – while it does sound a bit like London – is hardly her patch. “We know the difference - some of our computers don’t,” sighs my man at Labour HQ.

THERESA May’s predecessors tried to get the Tory Party to lighten up and pale blue rosettes for candidates at elections came to symbolise this. The Heckler hears that Theresa May apparently eager to make it clear her brand of Toryism will be a lot darker - is now going back to the navy blue rosettes of the Thatcher era.

That the new rosettes are only now being issued, in the final days of the campaign, says how chaotic things are at Tory HQ.

ONE thing they didn’t teach David Cameron at Eton was manners. The footage of him apparently jumping the queue to buy socks at JD Sports in London recalls a 2006 incident when he was caught without a ticket on the Tube. Typically, Cameron – then leader of the Opposition – blagged his way out of a £30 fine.

DANNY Devito has not been getting things his way lately in politics. The Twins star wanted Bernie Sanders as President. “You’re our only hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi,” he said in a bizarre tweet during the US election. Now he is pinning his hopes on Jeremy Corbyn.

He was seen campaigning for him in Islington. Devito seems to have a soft spot for politicians who look like the Star Wars character.