Tim Roth, Anna Maxwell Martin star in true story of a father taking on the PM!

Tim Roth stars as Reg in the new trailer for Jimmy McGovern‘s 90-minute screen adaptation of the true story of Reg Keys, the father of a royal military policeman, who took on the British prime minister over Britain’s participation in the Iraq War.

When Reg and his wife Sally (Anna Maxwell Martin) return home to discover that their son, Lance Corporal Tom Keys has been killed four days short of his 21st birthday in the volatile Shia city of al Majarr al Kabir, they are plunged into grief and despair.

Learning that the army had ordered a scale-down in weapons and comms three weeks prior to Lance’s death, and angered by his belief that the war with Iraq was based on a lie, Reg forms a pressure group called Families Against the War. Certain that his son died as part of an army blunder, Reg tries several times to talk to Tony Blair, to no avail. He then makes a radical decision: to stand for election against Tony Blair in his home constituency of Sedgefield.

Reg airs on BBC One Monday, 6th June at 9pm.

Watch the trailer below…