Rhys Ifans, who shot to fame as Spike, Hugh Grant’s grubby flatmate in Notting Hill – who didn’t enjoy the scene-stealing moment when, caught outside that famous front door, the paparazzi hoping for a picture of Julia Roberts get a shot of him posing in his underpants instead – has not forgotten his political roots in south Wales. Rhys, who stars as drug dealer Howard Marks in Mr Nice, has opened fire on David Cameron’s Conservative Government. “Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love.” Such as? “The mining industry. Milk.”
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