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The Thick of It - The Rise of the Nutters

Seizoen: 2 - Aflevering: 1 / 27 - Eerst uitgezonden: 02 januari 2007 - Episode ID: 331548

Hugh Abbot is in Australia and the department has to "babysit" Junior Minister for Immigration Ben Swain, who is described as a "nutter" (a supporter of prime-minister-in-waiting Tom Davis). The episode revolves around a computer problem at Immigration, which is exacerbated by the junior minister appearing in a disastrous Newsnight interview. The opposition policy advisor Emma Messinger capitalises on the error by stealing an idea from her boyfriend Ollie Reeder, to send the shadow minister Peter Mannion on a factfinding mission at an immigration centre. Meanwhile, Tucker is concerned about his position in the government after speculating that the Prime Minister's handover to Tom Davis is expected in less than six months. Tucker conspires with Ollie to leak the Prime Minister's "legacy programme" (the PM's plan to move the handling of immigration policy to a non-political executive board) in the hope of stalling his departure, inadvertently leading the PM to resign early