Season 1

1996 · 10 episodes

Political soap with scenes shot just hours before transmission. Set in and around Annie's Bar - the legendary watering hole and gossip shop in the House of Commons.

1Episode 1David Dashwood is surprisingly elected as Conservative MP at a by-election in marginal Westling-on-Sea. Flushed with success, he is set to go to Westminster with his ideals intact.
2Episode 2David Dashwood makes his first TV appearance and doesn't realise that he has been set up by the Labour Whip. Terry Dunning, the Tory Whip, is not amused.
3Episode 3Nick Buckley is at the forefront of a demonstration designed to win votes, but things start to go wrong. Stiggy gets embroiled with Candy in an embarrassing scam.
4Episode 4David Dashwood is due to make his maiden speech and he's determined to make his mark, despite the attempts of Terry Dunning to restrain him. Then Graham Keegan receives a worrying phone call.
5Episode 5After Dashwood has made his provocative maiden speech and the knives are out for him... within his own party. Labour whip Graham Keegan has his own problems, and is fighting for his political life.
6Episode 6Although David is pleasing his constituents, his wife Laura is giving the Westling constituency chairman serious cause for concern.
7Episode 7Antonia Courtney is giving Terry Dunning difficulties. Will his threat to deport her have the desired effect?
8Episode 8David threatens to force a defeat on the Government, so Terry enlists the help of Fleur to manoeuvre him into an uncompromising position. Will blackmail work on the rebel?
9Episode 9A break-in at the whip's office gives Terry Dunning a major headache, and Fleur gets taken in for questioning.
10Episode 10It's the night of the crucial vote and Dashwood is determined to vote with the opposition - can he bring down the government?

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