{"id":651590,"date":"2026-06-22T04:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T04:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:12:15","slug":"former-first-minister-nicola-sturgeon-to-play-uk-deputy-prime-minister-in-new-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651590\/","title":{"rendered":"Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to play UK deputy prime minister in new TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to play the UK\u2019s deputy Prime Minister in a new Sky series called The Wargame.<\/p>\n<p>The four-part show sees an impressive cross-party cast of highly experienced public figures who must navigate a war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Tory MP Michael Gove, will play the Prime Minister, alongside the likes of Penny Mordaunt, Sayeeda Warsi, Harriet Harman and former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy posted on X: \u201cThis was fun and challenging to film. And was enjoyable being on the same side as Nicola Sturgeon for only the second time in our lives (Remain).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo plot spoilers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show is produced by The Garden, part of ITV Studios and takes viewers beyond the news cycle and behind closed doors into a sealed COBR-style crisis room.<\/p>\n<p>The drama will run on four consecutive nights in September. It\u2019s set six months into the future and has been developed in conjunction with leading academics, military and defence experts.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to play the UK\u2019s deputy Prime Minister in a new Sky series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}