Prudence at Number 10 is a fictional diary purporting to be the private thoughts of Prudence Harbinger, former (
United Kingdom
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)
Prime Minister
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Gordon Brown
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's Director of Media Liaison, but actually written for publication in British newspaper ''
The Sunday Telegraph
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'' by
Laurence Marks and
Maurice Gran
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, the authors of the column's predecessor ''
Alan B'Stard's Diary''.
In the first episode
In which we meet Prudence
{cbignore, bot=medic we are introduced to a single fast-track career civil-servant who carries a torch for the Iron Chancellor since working on his team a decade before. Her heart leaps when he rings her to renew their (strictly working) relationship.
References
Satirical columns