Knudsen, star of Borgen, and Wright, of House of Cards

House of Cards meets Borgen in a planned new BBC TV Westminster thriller.

The Club has been created jointly by Michael Dobbs, whose novel House of Cards was turned into a BBC1 hit before being transported to America by Netflix, and Adam Price, the Danish screenwriter, whose Nordic-noir drama about a female prime minister, played by Sidse Babett Knudsen, became a surprise global hit.

The original House of Cards starred Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart, the Tory chief whip who schemes his way into No 10, while the US version plotted the bloody ascent of the Underwoods, Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, to the White House. The fifth US series began streaming last week.

The Club tells of a woman who succeeds her husband as