In the first episode, Alan 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 get into the very vortex of power, Clark plots his way ever closer to The Lady (Margaret Thatcher) and her lovely ankles. But at every turn, he is hampered by his predilection for scandal and gaffes.