Jed Mercurio has joked that UK prime minister Boris Johnson had failed his “audition” for Line of Duty, in a scathing social media joke.
Writing on Twitter, Line of Duty creator Mercurio shared a photograph of Johnson wearing the police get-up, and joked that he had auditioned for his long-running BBC cop drama.
News of Johnson’s proposed drugs crackdown has coincided with a report into drug use in the Palace of Westminster.
In 2014, when David Cameron was prime minister, the figure stood at a comparatively low 48 per cent.