What Zac wants, Zac gets.’ Read More Behind-the-scenes of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale: rediscover the unmissable interview with star Elizabeth McGovern as the period drama arrives on the small screen It’s Britain’s favourite period drama, and she’s the American star at the very heart of it. Stepping down from the Foreign Office, where his portfolio was overseas territories, Commonwealth, environment, energy and climate, Zac Goldsmith claimed that he was ‘horrified’ with the government, adding that ‘bit by bit, we have abandoned commitments’, that ‘the problem is not that the government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our prime minister, are simply uninterested’.