It looks like the first shot across the bows of a new class war. The Royal Court announces today that its spring season will include Posh, a play about the type of Old Etonians who belong to Oxbridge dining societies and believe they should rule the world.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the credit crunch, the question on the collective artworld lips has been: “What will the recession mean for the arts?” The new play from Laura Wade sparks a potentially more interesting political question: “What might the Tories mean for us?” Or - given that the shadow culture team Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey are working hard to answer that one themselves - what will the arts do with the Tories?

No one can fail to see the inspiration for playwright Laura Wade’s investigation even if she insists she is no party political assassin. It is impossible to imagine that five years ago or even a decade the Court would have dedicated its main stage to a bunch of hooray Henrys. But how times have changed.

Next year could see a change of Government where the country is in the hands of former Bullingdon Club members David Cameron and George Osborne (not to forget mayor Boris). If David Hare, a disillusioned Labour supporter, can bring as much discomfort as he has to the Labour party with works such as Gethsemane, a scarcely veiled attack on New Labour corruption and sleaze, think that might happen once the playwrights get going on David and Sam Cam. Tales of Bullingdon-style debauchery might be only the start.