Plot

An accurate depiction of the events surrounding the United Kingdom hung parliament in 2010 and the aftermath involving the three main party leaders in attempting to form a government, despite contrasting policies and personal beliefs.

In May 2010, the United Kingdom encountered a critical dilemma - neither the Conservative party, the Labour party or the Liberal Democrat party got enough votes to win the General Election. Faced with the first hung parliament in 36 years, and with next to no seats compared to the other two parties, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (Bertie Carvel) is faced with a choice: either join forces with the Conservatives and their leader David Cameron (Mark Dexter) or with Labour and their leader, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (Ian Grieve). Met with the possibility to being branded a traitor and the future of the nation's government in his hands, the choice that Clegg is left to make will change the face of modern British politics for years to come.—Mia Allen

In 2010 in the run-up to the British election PM Gordon Brown, pushed by spin doctor Peter Mandelson, nervously agrees to a televised debate with the Conservative leader David Cameron and his Lib Dem counterpart Nick Clegg. Polls show Clegg to be the most popular as a result. However on election night his party gets less votes than expected but the Conservatives are also nineteen seats short of an overall majority. Shadow chancellor George Osborne suggests to Cameron a coalition with the Lib Dems to secure the required amount of seats but some Labour ministers have the same idea . Liberal elder statesman Paddy Ashdown tells Clegg the party's natural affinity is with Labour but Clegg is idealistic and feels that to ally himself with the stronger Conservatives would help him to bring about the changes the country needs. And thus begins a very strange and not always harmonious coalition.—don @ minifie-1