Cast your mind back, if it’s not too distressing, to 29 June 2016. Journalists haven’t slept in a week, Nigel Farage is 30 pints down, and no one knows who is really in charge since David Cameron announced his resignation in the wake of the shock Brexit vote six days earlier.
But in London’s Leicester Square, carrying on as if Britain wasn’t in a state of abject political chaos, is the world premiere of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. “Right now, they haven’t even noticed,” creator and star Jennifer Saunders told Vanity Fair, when asked what Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone made of the referendum result. “They’re still in a drunken stupor and probably never knew if they were in the European Union, out of it, or if there ever was a government.”
Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month
Content from our partners
