Clark joins the Department of Employment, parties with the Coven, suffers under the tyranny of the civil service and scandalises the House in a late night session.

Determined to escape the hateful confines of the Department of Employment and to get into the very vortex of power, Clark plots his way ever closer to Margaret Thatcher and her lovely ankles. But at every turn, he is hampered by his predilection for scandal and gaffes.

Clark revels in his new found status as Minister of Trade and his delicious new diary secretary, but soon finds himself prisoner to a gruelling travel schedule, deep jet-lag and infuriating civil servants. As he forges on with his precious anti-fur legislation, personal and political pressures begin to escalate.