Following a series of circumstances involving the Eurosausage, the Home Secretary drink
driving and the Chancellor's dalliances with a shady lady from Argentina, Minister for
Administrative Affairs Jim Hacker finds himself elevated to Number 10 Downing Street
without being quite sure how he got there. But life as Prime Minister is no easier than
being a Minister; Hacker still finds his every move challenged by the Civil Service as
represented by his new Cabinet Secretary, the ever-wily and manipulative Sir Humphrey
Appleby, who is as equally determined that nothing should change as Hacker is that
changes should be made. Wandering nervously between them is Bernard Wooley, Hacker's
private secretary, who continues juggling his responsibilities to his political master
with his loyalties to his Civil Service colleaguesÂ
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