SAM MILLS

It is June 2009. On a ferry bound for Dover, Amal and her daughter huddle together on the last leg of a harrowing illegal journey from Iraq to Britain. In Finchley, Ahmed and Akila Shakir wait to take them in. Also Iraqi by birth, they are bringing up their sons as British Muslims. Just a few miles away in Hampstead, journalist Henry Freeman and his American wife Ava raise their children in a different world, a middle-class world of privilege and easy assumptions. And in America, Sean Oke trains with the Marines, ready to join the latest stage of the War on Terror in Syria. Then everything changes. Britain's newly elected government declares that they will no longer follow America's lead in the Middle East. After a series of terror attacks and political clashes an explosive tension grows and eventually, the unthinkable becomes reality. America, intent on bringing 'New Democracy' to the world, declares they will invade, overturn the government and 'liberate' the British people. The Last Days of England realises this epic alternative reality, as the lives of two families and one US marine become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined.