To His Surprise, His Play About 2 Dead U.K. Politicians Struck a Chord

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Mr. McManus said he wanted to dissipate some of the polarization provoked by Brexit.
50% : For him, much of the attraction of the Tories was their hostility to Communism and commitment to the Eastern European nations.
47% : Speaking in a London pub theater, Mr. McManus, who once worked for Mr. Heath, said the play was really about the epic battle for the party's soul, a struggle that culminated in Mr. Johnson's headlong charge to Brexit and his brutal purge of pro-Europeans.
46% : But this summer a brief run of "Maggie & Ted, the Birth of Brexit" attracted a sellout theater crowd, including a former prime minister, Theresa May, and its success seems to have surprised the playwright, Michael McManus, as much as anyone.
44% : The drama centers on the feud between two former Conservative prime ministers: Margaret Thatcher, whose rejection of European integration became ever more strident, and her predecessor as party leader, Edward Heath, who took Britain into the forerunner of the European Union in 1973 when he was in Downing Street.
42% : After Britain's five years in political meltdown, Mr. McManus's play is nothing if not timely; it explores the genesis of an argument that would inspire the country's polarizing rupture with the European Union and turbocharge the rise of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
40% : " A quarter of a century later, another Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, would legalize same-sex marriage.
38% : "Nobody will ever persuade me that Brexit was a good choice, ever," he said.
38% : When Mr. McManus began working for the Tories in 1990, Mrs. Thatcher was about to be overthrown, partly because of her hostility to European integration.
32% : Though Mr. Cameron's decision to call the 2016 Brexit referendum proved a disastrous miscalculation, his gamble on legalizing same-sex marriage (despite internal opposition) paid off.

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