Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star as Vote Leave campaign manager Dominic Cummings in a new one-off drama about the data-driven political campaign for Brexit.

Filming has begun on the "explosive and illuminating" political thriller, set mostly during the EU referendum.

The one-off Channel 4 drama will explore the "myriad tactics employed to swing one of the most surprising referendum results in living memory".

Cumberbatch, revealed in this first image with a receding hairline, stars as Cummings, the leading strategist and campaign director of Vote Leave, in the production directed by Toby Haynes.