John Stonehouse was on a business trip in the United States when he vanished after going for an afternoon dip in the Atlantic Ocean. He was presumed dead until police found him alive and well in ...

Matthew plays John Thomson Stonehouse, a complex man who became the MP for the constituency of Walsall North, and briefly found favour with the then Prime Minister, Huddersfield’s own Harold Wilson.

When John Stonehouse's clothes were found on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that the UK Member of Parliament had drowned – until he turned up in Australia.

In November 1974, former British cabinet minister John Stonehouse pretended to drown in the ocean off Miami, and escaped to Australia hoping to start over under a new identity. It only took a few ...

According to the book Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster and Spy by John’s great nephew Julian Hayes, neither Sheila nor Barbara wanted to let go of the MP despite his misdeeds.

ITV’s latest three-part drama Stonehouse tells the true story of Labour MP John Stonehouse, played by Succession’s Matthew Macfayden, who faked his death to set up a new life in Australia with ...

Stonehouse, the dramatisation of Labour politician John Stonehouse's botched attempt to fake his own death, succeeds in bringing to life the absolute absurdity behind the farce. As the real-life ...