The Closed Circle follows the adolescent characters from The Rotters Club into middle age. On New Years Eve of 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a glossy new version of Britain, Benjamin Trotter watches the celebration on television in the same Birmingham house where hed grown up. Watches, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a member of Parliament and a rising sta The Closed Circle follows the adolescent characters from The Rotters Club into middle age. On New Years Eve of 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a glossy new version of Britain, Benjamin Trotter watches the celebration on television in the same Birmingham house where hed grown up. Watches, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a member of Parliament and a rising star of New Labour, glad-handing his way through the festive crowd at the Millennium Done. Neither of them could guess their lives are about to implode.