New Labour MP Jean Price tries to figure out the hectic Parliamentary schedule and to find an opposition ""sweetheart"" so she can go home for a birthday dinner with her husband.

Jean gets advice from all sides about giving her maiden Parliamentary speech, then throws it all away as she speaks impulsively, and is sent to Coventry for her recklessness.

Jean learns about the many ways a member can introduce a bill into Parliament as she tries to pass legislation to enhance childcare in the workplace.

Jean tries to find out if toxic nuclear waste has been traveling the streets of her constituency, and runs into a maze of dead ends.

Jean agrees to serve on two Parliamentary committees, where she learns of their essential uselessness and the power of the press when a correction she makes in a proposed bill is credited to Godfrey.

Jean sneaks a copy of Godfrey's notes on health care reform and uses them against him, but is unable to back up her statements without revealing where she got her information.

Jean and Godfrey join forces in a censorship fight and drive a newsagent out of business.

Jean urges Ken to vote his own beliefs instead of those dictated by his constituency, then learns a bitter lesson herself when she agrees to support an opponent's attempt to legislate quotas for women on governing boards.

Jean faces jail when she buys a bag of cocaine to present to her colleagues during a speech urging stricter drug laws.

Jean tries to help a constituent who claims this time he really is innocent of the crimes he's been convicted of and that the police framed him.

Jean tries to help a Chinese man remain in Britain and Jean's new Conservative researcher plagues Ken.

Rumours of sexual indiscretions and possible resignations run rampant and Jean finds her loyalties torn when a position in the shadow cabinet seems possible.

Jean and Ken both face de-selection by their party when their stands on national defense prove unpopular. Jean also matches wits with a new ""pair"" after a financially strapped Godfrey resigns and ""sells"" her to the MP taking over his office space.

Jean tackles the homeless problem when a constituent asks for help finding a new home.

Ken and Jean come down on opposite sides of a potential kidnapping case and Jean clashes with Richard over sexual harassment.

A vote to raise MP salaries sparks a contest between Jean and Richard, with Jean responsible for taking a 20 pound investment and turning it into 30 pounds and Richard agreeing to live on supplemental public benefit for two weeks.

Jean takes on health care and social services for a constituent whose spleen was removed by mistake, a man who didn't have quite enough of his leg amputated and a woman caring for an infirmed father-in-law.

Jean, Richard and Norman become involved in the labyrinth of leaks and vaguely attributed sources when a new reporter begins covering the action in the lobby of Parliament.