Harriet Walter played Prime Minister Patterson as cold and calculating, but nevertheless ended up the second British PM exterminated by the Daleks in recent years. I think we all expected it would be Captain Jack who rescued the Doctor from space prison. By the episode’s conclusion, Whittaker had very much regained her sense of purpose – “I’m the Doctor. Deeper into the vortexIs psychic paper the best parting gift in recent years from a Doctor to a companion? Kenneth Kendall was the first newsreader to portray himself like this in Doctor Who – way back in 1966 during William Hartnell story the War Machines.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2021 20:02 UTC