SINGER-songwriter Diana Vickers has landed a role in a West End play.

The 22-year-old former Blackburn Westholme School student will be taking to the stage next month in ‘The Duck House’, a comedy about MPs’ expenses, which will run at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.

The play has already been touring the UK, taking Diana, who is from Huncoat, to Guildford, Malvern, Nottingham, and most recently to Cambridge, where she is performing this week.

The play is set in May 2009, when Gordon Brown’s Government is in meltdown and a General Election is a year away.

The action centres around Labour backbencher Robert Houston, who switches to the Conservatives to save his seat.

All is going well with his defection until the expenses scandal breaks.

As public fury mounts, Robert and his secretarial staff, aka wife Felicity, student son Seb, Russian housekeeper Ludmilla, and Seb’s girlfriend Holly, played by Diana, find themselves in big trouble.

Diana will be starring alongside Ben Miller, best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller.

He said: “They say that comedy equals tragedy plus time, and traumatic as the expense scandal was, hopefully we can all now have a good laugh about it. And if any MPs don't like it, they can always claim for it on expenses.”