CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Secret Service? This spy-by-numbers thriller is about as inventive as its title

Secret Service (ITV1)

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Who is the Russian mole inside the Cabinet? Has our agent’s cover been blown? If that’s what you’re wondering, as Tom Bradby‘s thriller Secret Service gets going, you’re asking the wrong questions.

Far more intriguing is the puzzle of how come, out of all the dozens of le Carre-copycat, spy-by-numbers novels published every year, ITV happened to choose to adapt one by their very own News At Ten presenter. It’s a mystery.

Secret Service can’t have been picked for its originality. The plot is about as inventive as the title. The pacing, the twists, the moments of tension and the

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