Yes, Prime Minister cast at Trafalgar Studios

Casting has been confirmed for Yes, Prime Minister, which returns to the West End from 6 June 2012, at the Trafalgar Studios 1, booking to 12 Jan 2013.

Robert Daws will play 'Prime Minister Jim Hacker' alongside Michael Simkins as 'Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby'. Emily Bruni will join the cast in the role of 'Claire Sutton' and Jim Barclay will play 'Simon Chester'. Also reprising their roles from the 2012 UK tour will be Clive Hayward as 'Bernard Woolley', Sam Dastor as 'the Ambassador' and Tony Boncza as 'Jeremy Burnham - Director General of BBC'.

Yes, Prime Minister is written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, the original writers of the classic TV series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

It is directed by Jonathan Lynn, designed by Simon Higlett, lighting by Tim Mitchell.

As British troops are now out of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan is winding down, the focus has shifted towards Prime Minister Jim Hacker's desperate fight to avoid Sarkozy's fate as he battles the Europeans over greater austerity, the collapsing euro, assassinations by drones and serious diplomatic misbehaviour influenced by Silvio Berlusconi and Dominique Strauss Kahn. Sir Humphrey is in favour of greater austerity for ordinary people but not for senior civil servants.

This Chichester Festival Theatre production has had several West End runs: Gielgud Theatre (17 Sep 2010 to 15 Jan 2011); Apollo Theatre (6 July 2011 to 17 Sep 2011); Gielgud Theatre again (20 Sep 2011 to 19 Nov 2011).