Episode 3 The Politician's Husband


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This programme contains some strong language.

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-You hurt me.

-We all do things we're not proud of.

-No more waiting in the wings.

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-Can I get copied in to Freya's diary?

-My diary is confidential, Lian.

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I naively assumed we'd be sharing the office, not that I'd be in the shed.

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This Twitter thing. It's, it's not Aiden's handiwork, is it?

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He'd never stoop that low.

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Has he joined in at all?

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He's very withdrawn of late.

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Dita! I'm flattered, but it's not happening, OK?

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-About to do a piece on your better half. Quite a show she put on back there.

-I saw them together.

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-Thick as bloody thieves.

-It's that look you get whenever I mention his name.

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I wish to God I knew where your damn head was these days.

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I'm through it now, Freya. The feud with Bruce. All of it. I'm done with it.

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SIGHING AND GROANING

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Golly. Twice last night and again this morning.

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I hope that's not a guilty conscience?

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When a man has a sudden libido surge,

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don't they say it's to prevent his wife from twigging his infidelity?

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Do you mind if I jump in first?

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Go for it.

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SHOWER WATER RUNS

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Thanks for coming. PHONE RINGS

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-Hi.

-Ruby hasn't been picked up from school.

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Well, Dita never showed to collect her!

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Dita?

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Can I watch some TV?

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Yeah, ten minutes and then tea.

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Dita!

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Dita! Me again. Same message.

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Just call, OK? You owe us that much.

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Noah, tea's up.

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PHONE RINGS

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Eat, both of you.

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Hello?

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She's our au pair, yes... Or was.

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Sorry, who is this?

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It's gone over the line!

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-Hold on!

-It's over the line!!

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OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, look!

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Right. Fine.

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All right? OK.

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Say that again.

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When did you send it?

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COMPUTER BEEPS

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Yeah, OK, I have it.

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Just give me a...

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Yeah, OK.

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OK, well, thanks, anyway. Bye. Bye.

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An injunction's useless. They'll just put the story on Facebook

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Or Twitter. We're still screwed.

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It's the old tabloid trick, isn't it? Tempt her with a wad of dosh to dish the dirt.

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Mummy! Dita's run away! She's taken all her stuff!

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All right, sweetie. What are you watching? Come on, let's...

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Sit down. I'll come and see you in a few minutes, all right?

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TELEVISION: 'Now you are an inventor...'

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When the cupboard's bare they conjure up this risible shite.

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The sun, it seems, still rises.

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Oh, don't say it. Tell...tell me you're not actually buying it?

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I never touched her!

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Freya! I never looked at her. I never came on to her.

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Not in thought, not in deed!

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Good God, you really think I would shit on my own doorstep like that?

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-But you would elsewhere?

-Oh...

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Then why would she claim such a thing, Aiden?

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Why would she do that to you? To us?

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The other day, I was in the bath.

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She walks in.

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Trust me, it was an offer I had no trouble refusing.

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This is payback.

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And telling me about it just slipped your mind?

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I was afraid you'd fire her, we'd be up shit creek!

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I thought I'd put her straight. I'd dealt with it.

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That went well.

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The only thing you can lay at my door is naivety, Freya!

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I underestimated what a... vindictive, mendacious cow she is!

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Dear God! That you can even begin to think that I could be capable...

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What sort of marriage is this? What are we doing?

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-Don't say that.

-Why, does not saying it make it less true?

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These last few weeks, it's as if...

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we're flying blind.

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We keep losing sight of each other.

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I know you feel it, too. I know it.

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We're still good, aren't we, Aiden?

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Of course we're good.

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Don't even go there.

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'Next, the Guardian - "Golden couple tarnished by affair with nanny".

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'The Times gets in on the act - "Au Pair quits job over Hoynes' alleged sex antics".

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'The Sun - "Hoynes is a sex pest says nanny".

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'The Daily Express - "Nanny alleges Aiden Hoynes is sex addict".

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'And the Star goes in hard - "Did Hoynes get it on with nanny?"'

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MOBILE PHONE RINGS

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'Did the Prime Minister's moratorium on immigration...'

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It'll be fine.

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I know you've come a long way.

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Let's make this brief, so you can decamp,

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we can all get on with our day.

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Let me say this.

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The accusations that Dita Kowalski has made

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against my husband are without foundation.

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18 months ago we welcomed her into our home as our nanny.

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-Has she gone back to Poland?

-We welcomed her into our home

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and yet in all that time she has never once raised the issue of

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my husband's alleged inappropriate behaviour, not with me,

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not with the agency who recruited her, or with any of her friends.

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'Dita's actions are a gross violation

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'of the trust we showed her. I am sure

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'SHE will come to deeply regret the injustice she has done to us

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'and in that sense...

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'she is as much of a victim of her actions as we are.'

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'Aiden Hoynes and Freya Gardner...'

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Kiss at the garden gate routine, always a winner.

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Might take more than a kiss to win her over.

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Morning, everyone.

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My office. Two minutes, carers' allowance briefing.

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Aiden! Thanks for this.

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I thought it less formal if we met here.

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If less private. I hope it goes without saying, Marcus,

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these absurd allegations have absolutely no basis.

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Good God, yes. Totally.

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My lawyer is demanding a full retraction or we'll slap a libel suit on her.

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He's confident we'll get a result.

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Excellent. Job done, then.

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Extraordinary thing for her to assert, though. Out of the blue.

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It seems she had something of a crush on me.

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Lordy!

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You were wise not to share that with our feral friends in the press.

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Less meat on the bone, the less they have to chew on.

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A statement of support from the PM would square the circle, Marcus.

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Or am I still on the naughty step?

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For Freya's sake, not mine. She's barely got her feet under the cabinet table, has she?

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That's a brutal baptism for anyone.

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We've the Party Funding debate coming up.

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If I told him you were prepared to champion his position on it,

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coming from you, his staunchest critic,

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it could turn the tide for him.

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I can guarantee in advance he'd be more than appreciative of such a gesture.

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Don't worry about Freya. She's tougher than you think.

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Everyone knows your marriage is bullet-proof.

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Marcus?

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You and Bruce, I know you're close.

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I know how loyal you've been to him over the years.

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I respect that, I do. God knows...

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God knows we could do with a bit more of that in this place.

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But...he and I were that way once too.

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Best friends from university, best man at each other's weddings,

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godfather to my children. You don't get closer than that.

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I still got royally shafted, didn't I?

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In the end...

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we're all sacrificed on the altar of his ambition.

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We're all expendable.

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No-one is exempt.

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It was in the music class, apparently.

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Er, a boy had a tambourine, Noah decided he wanted it

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and when the boy refused, Noah went ballistic -

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biting, hitting, lashing out at him.

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It took two of them to drag him off.

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They think it was triggered by what's been happening at home.

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The business with Dita.

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I hope you told them not to believe everything they read in the papers.

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Come on!

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God knows what the future holds for him.

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What happens when he's a six-foot hormonal teenager,

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he kicks off like he did with that kid today?

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Well, by then he'll be more mature, won't he? Easier to reach.

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En route home from his school we often pass a bunch of boys in the park, kicking a ball around.

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When I look at them...

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Put it this way, I'm not proud of how it makes me feel.

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I just thank God he doesn't feel it too.

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Envy.

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Anger.

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How do you know he doesn't feel it?

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When's Freya back?

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Late. She has some constituents visiting the House.

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Would it help if I stay over weeknights, give you a hand

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until you're sorted on the childcare?

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Yeah.

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OK.

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DOOR ENTRY BUZZER SOUNDS

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-Hi.

-Hi.

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I've barely an hour. I've got some councillors from the constituency in for a tour of the House.

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Er, you wanted to go through our growth strategy proposal again?

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Um, you were right,

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the tax incentive figures don't stack up. Well spotted.

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Is it just us?

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I thought your team would be here.

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I'll debrief them later.

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I chased our working paper on the pension pilot scheme...

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This tour for your constituents - can't someone stand in for you?

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I wish.

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Sarah. Where are you meeting them?

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St Stephen's Gate.

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Freya Gardner has some constituents due in for a tour of the House in an hour? She's been held up.

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Do the honours for her? Keep them sweet?

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You are a treasure.

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FREYA LAUGHS

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You really are a piece of work.

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I try, God knows.

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Mm. We made progress tonight, don't you think?

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It was a ruse, to get you here.

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I thought you could use a friend, given the day you've had.

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All those prurient eyes on you.

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"Did he or didn't he?" "Isn't he getting enough at home?"

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And this was your idea for cheering me up?

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If for a moment I doubted Aiden,

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today would have been the purgatory you say it was. But...

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..since I don't, it wasn't.

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I've often wondered how it must feel.

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To have someone always onside. Always...thinking the best of you.

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Unconditionally.

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It has to be earned, Bruce.

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You'd never know it to look at it, would you?

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All that Gothic elegance hides such rancid base instincts.

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I include my own in that, needless to say.

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PHONE RINGS

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-Evening, sir.

-'Kenny.'

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Any idea when I might expect my wife home?

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Can't help, I'm afraid.

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She let me go for the night. I dropped her at Mr Babbish's apartment.

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You could try her there.

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OK, I'll do that. Thanks, bye.

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'He's only human, isn't he?'

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Knocking around that house every day, alone with your nanny.

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What is it they say?

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The best way to rid yourself of temptation is to yield to it?

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I really don't need this, Bruce.

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Say I'm right, hypothetically.

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Your reputation will be on the line right along with his, Freya.

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Standing by your man is all very commendable if you're Mrs Joe Bloggs from Woking.

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Different rules apply if the wife is a cabinet minister.

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Uber-loyalty can be seen as a lack of judgement, of weakness.

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Worse, as moral turpitude.

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Why are you saying this? Why are you doing all this?

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You know why.

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Been a long time coming, Freya.

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What do you want from me, Bruce?

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A quick fling? Or something more?

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What do you think?

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And what if it got out?

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You're right, different rules apply.

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Two cabinet ministers getting it on?

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One a wife and mother and the other an old family friend?

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We'd both crash and burn.

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I'll risk it if you will.

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You'd really do that for me?

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In a heartbeat.

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I'm sorry, but...

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do I really look like someone

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who's just acquired an IQ in single figures?

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Nice try, Lothario.

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CAR DRIVES AWAY

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I hope this isn't a guilty conscience?

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Diaphragm?

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I binned it. I'm on the pill now.

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I'll double them up for a couple of weeks to be sure.

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Don't we usually talk about stuff like that?

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What, as in asking permission?

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We need to be failsafe now, so I sorted it.

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Don't make something out of nothing.

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How was it with your constituents?

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Tedious. I thought they'd never leave.

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Daddy! Daddy, I've got a tummy ache!

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Wait and see if she settles.

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Daddy, my tummy hurts!

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Daddy!

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Have you remembered that I'm in Leeds overnight?

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Launching the new apprenticeship scheme.

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You OK to do the school run?

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Mmm. Dad and I have got it covered.

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The debate on the Party Funding Bill's tomorrow.

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You be back for it?

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I'm throwing my hat in the ring.

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I'll make damn sure I'm back for it.

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If you want to run anything by me, we can talk on the phone tonight?

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No, I'm on top of it.

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Freya?

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Don't want any slip-ups, do we?

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Starting to think it was a no-show.

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Curiosity won the day. A failing of mine.

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Among others.

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I assume it's still a favourite?

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Best to keep a clear head.

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I'm not eating.

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Squid risotto.

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Now the niceties are over.

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This enmity between us, Bruce.

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I want to put an end to it.

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I'm not asking for myself.

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But for Freya.

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Your two departments have allied responsibilities - if she's to work effectively with you,

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she has to be...

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unencumbered by what happened between us.

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So the way I see it, it's up to me...

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to find a way out of our impasse.

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To convince her that I'm ready to put the past to rest, I've moved on.

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But...

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it has to be more than empty words.

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I have to prove it to her.

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An idea I came up while I was still running Business And Skills.

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Before I got sidetracked by the damn leadership thing.

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What are the two biggest problems facing our society today?

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The ticking time bomb of caring for the elderly

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and the burden on the state supporting a 100,000 immigrants who can't work

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while their applications to stay are processed.

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So why not use one problem to solve the other?

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Many of those immigrants are educated, intelligent people

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with a cultural ethos of respecting the elderly.

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So, we put them to work...

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looking after our own elderly in their own homes.

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In return, they get bonus points on their applications to remain here.

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We save millions on their benefits.

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And billions on caring for the elderly in care homes.

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How do you propose to fund such a scheme?

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Outsource it to the private sector.

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Everyone else is at it, why not this?

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Your Daily Mail reader's banging on about the elderly.

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Guardian reader's banging on about the plight of immigrants.

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Right and left are assuaged in one blow.

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It's a win-win deal.

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Not to mention a vote-winning one.

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Did you float it with any outsource companies?

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Mmmm. A new start-up one, Charlesburg Investments, I rather fancied.

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They have capital and they're hungry for a major Government contract.

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They'll do whatever it takes to win it.

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Is that it? Only I have a two o'clock.

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No matter what our history, Bruce,

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I know that your respect and affection for Freya

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means you'll do the right thing by her.

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God knows she deserves it.

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TEXT MESSAGE ALERT

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Excuse me a second.

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We have a green light. Go for it.

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Again, come on! That's it.

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Right, this is going to be good.

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Again, again to me!

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Oh. Hi, Dad!

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-Come on!

-Oh, well done.

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-And he scores!

-Yes!

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If you can't beat 'em...

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Come on!

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Kick it to Ruby, go on!

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That's it, back up, take a run at it.

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Go on, Noah! Do what Daddy says.

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That's it! Good boy.

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Come on.

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Come on, Noah, kick it!

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It's OK.

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-Come on, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me...

-Ready, ready! Go!

-Go on, hit it!

0:32:500:32:53

-Oh, Dad!

-Grandpa!

0:32:530:32:55

-Oh!

-Grandpa?

0:32:570:33:00

I had you fooled, and you thought... But I wasn't, I was just pretending!

0:33:040:33:08

I was only pretending!

0:33:080:33:10

SHE LAUGHS

0:33:100:33:12

It's all right, it's a joke, he's fine!

0:33:120:33:15

He was pretending, to make us laugh.

0:33:150:33:18

OK?

0:33:200:33:21

Come on. Come on, Noah!

0:33:240:33:25

Dynamite stuff, eh?

0:33:330:33:35

A new spin on blue-sky thinking, I'll say that.

0:33:350:33:39

You certainly kept a lid on it.

0:33:410:33:43

I needed time to road-test it before going public.

0:33:430:33:47

And this outsource company?

0:33:470:33:50

New outfit. About to check them out.

0:33:500:33:53

The water is already lapping round the PM's ankles, Marcus.

0:33:550:33:59

His personal rating's flatlining.

0:33:590:34:01

One last push and the party will make him walk the plank.

0:34:010:34:04

You'll have to take the Home office with you, and Health and DWP.

0:34:060:34:11

Well, that's the beauty of it.

0:34:110:34:13

Everyone's going on about how the government is too departmentalized,

0:34:130:34:16

stuck in their own silos.

0:34:160:34:18

This is a narrative for a whole Government.

0:34:180:34:21

It's the ultimate holistic test of joined-up policy.

0:34:210:34:25

What better entry card to Number 10 than a bold, innovative idea

0:34:250:34:29

like this one to remind them what courageous leadership is all about?

0:34:290:34:32

Are you not coming to the funding debate?

0:34:380:34:40

No time for that crap today. Too much on.

0:34:400:34:43

CHEERING

0:34:480:34:50

Order! Order! Mr Aiden Hoynes.

0:34:510:34:55

Mr Speaker,

0:34:580:35:01

party funding is not just a financial issue,

0:35:010:35:05

but a moral one.

0:35:050:35:06

MURMURING

0:35:060:35:07

Given the recent allegations against me,

0:35:070:35:10

some might think my contribution to this debate...

0:35:100:35:14

self-serving.

0:35:140:35:15

MURMURING

0:35:150:35:17

In fact, my Right Honourable friend the Prime Minister was counting on that

0:35:170:35:21

when he asked for my support.

0:35:210:35:22

I'm afraid I couldn't oblige him.

0:35:240:35:26

I'm not prepared to sacrifice my principles for self-preservation.

0:35:280:35:32

Why should you?

0:35:320:35:33

But it prompted me to wonder -

0:35:350:35:38

how many of us in this house have prostituted our principles

0:35:380:35:42

for power and self-interest?

0:35:420:35:44

LOUD CLAMOURING

0:35:440:35:46

How many times have we flouted and ignored

0:35:460:35:50

our own ministerial code on ethical standards when it suits us?

0:35:500:35:53

I mean, where to start, Mr Speaker?

0:35:560:35:58

Cash for honours.

0:35:590:36:02

Cash for questions.

0:36:020:36:04

Cash for influence.

0:36:040:36:06

Dodgy dossiers. Dodgy finances.

0:36:060:36:09

Toxic pacts with the press and the big daddy of them all -

0:36:110:36:16

the expenses scandal.

0:36:160:36:17

-MPS:

-Yes! Hear, hear!

0:36:170:36:20

Those are just the headliners.

0:36:200:36:23

Is it any wonder the public is not just disengaged by politicians,

0:36:230:36:27

but DISGUSTED by us?

0:36:270:36:29

Contemptuous of us?

0:36:300:36:32

They see laws passed by MPs without proper scrutiny,

0:36:340:36:37

whipped into submission to toe the party line.

0:36:370:36:40

They see a political system relying on commercial

0:36:400:36:43

and partisan interests for its funding.

0:36:430:36:46

A system corrupted by lobbying and cronyism,

0:36:460:36:50

which has tainted the integrity of all of us in this chamber.

0:36:500:36:54

If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas, Mr Speaker,

0:36:540:36:57

and we are infested with them!

0:36:570:36:59

THE HOUSE CLAMOURS

0:36:590:37:01

-Order!

-And what are fleas but parasites by another name?

0:37:010:37:06

Perhaps it's time to remind ourselves of the meaning

0:37:060:37:09

of the Greek word "ethics".

0:37:090:37:12

Bruce Babbish.

0:37:120:37:13

We cannot let the issue of reforming our party funding system

0:37:130:37:18

join the litany of our other broken promises.

0:37:180:37:21

We said we would get rid of Punch & Judy politics in parliament.

0:37:220:37:26

We haven't. We said we would rid parliament of sleaze. We didn't.

0:37:260:37:32

We said we would be open and transparent in our dealings.

0:37:320:37:36

We're not.

0:37:360:37:37

If the promises we make mean nothing,

0:37:380:37:41

if the rights of citizens

0:37:410:37:43

are trampled on by a government to suit its own ends,

0:37:430:37:45

and if those they've elected do not hold the government to account,

0:37:450:37:48

the people will do it themselves... LOUD CLAMOURING

0:37:480:37:53

..if not by taking to the streets, by shunning the ballot box.

0:37:530:37:56

It isn't just us who will pay the price for that...

0:37:590:38:02

..but democracy itself.

0:38:040:38:06

Hear! Hear! Hear!

0:38:070:38:09

I have to say, I'm beginning to feel redundant.

0:38:190:38:22

You patently don't need me to write your speeches any more.

0:38:220:38:24

TEXT ALERT

0:38:240:38:26

That's another fan?

0:38:290:38:30

Mmmm, Sean Bartlett, no less.

0:38:300:38:32

Blimey, he doesn't dish out praise lightly.

0:38:320:38:34

That's most of the Front Bench you've corralled now.

0:38:340:38:38

Not to mention the home front.

0:38:380:38:39

So absurdly proud...

0:38:410:38:43

Ditto.

0:38:430:38:44

'Aiden Hoynes has garnered praise from an increasing number

0:38:450:38:48

'of prominent and back bench cross-party MPs after

0:38:480:38:50

'his dramatic speech during the Party Funding debate in the Commons today.

0:38:500:38:54

'The speech not only resonated strongly with MPs,

0:38:540:38:57

'but has prompted many political commentators to wonder

0:38:570:38:59

'if this provocative tirade against what Hoynes described as

0:38:590:39:02

'"the litany of broken promises" could be the beginning...'

0:39:020:39:05

PHONE RINGS

0:39:050:39:06

'..of an historic movement to renew confidence in the parliamentary system.'

0:39:060:39:10

Hello?

0:39:130:39:16

I hope you're sitting comfortably.

0:39:160:39:18

PHONE RINGS

0:39:220:39:24

-'Can you talk?'

-Go for it.

0:39:260:39:28

They're running it tomorrow,

0:39:280:39:29

to ride on the back of your speech in the House.

0:39:290:39:33

The footage is on their website now.

0:39:330:39:35

'I need to bring other departments along with me on it.

0:39:390:39:42

'Not least Freya Gardner at Work And Pensions - we're nowhere without her.

0:39:420:39:46

'And as a new start-up company, I'd be taking quite a risk on you.'

0:39:460:39:50

'The bigger the risk, the bigger the pay-off, as they say.'

0:39:500:39:54

'I assume we're talking about the same thing?'

0:39:540:39:56

'We're not talking about bank rolling the decor

0:39:560:39:59

'in your private office, Minister.'

0:39:590:40:02

'We'd be looking at showing our appreciation in a more tangible way.'

0:40:020:40:06

'I sense this is the start of a most fruitful relationship.'

0:40:090:40:13

The utter mind-blowing avarice of it!

0:40:130:40:17

It's his fatal flaw. Always was.

0:40:170:40:19

PHONE RINGS

0:40:210:40:23

Hello?

0:40:250:40:26

'Resignation today of the Business Secretary, Bruce Babbish.

0:40:310:40:34

'After being secretly filmed by two undercover reporters posing...'

0:40:340:40:38

-PHONE RINGS

-'..as outsource company executives where he allegedly accepted

0:40:380:40:42

'a bribe in return for granting them a major government contract.

0:40:420:40:46

'In other news, the national...'

0:40:460:40:49

PHONE RINGS

0:40:510:40:53

PRESS AND MEDIA CLAMOUR

0:41:030:41:06

'Let me say this.

0:41:090:41:11

'I had no knowledge whatsoever of any Government contract

0:41:110:41:14

'involving immigrants looking after the elderly.'

0:41:140:41:16

PHONE RINGS

0:41:160:41:18

'I was never approached by the Business Secretary at any time,

0:41:180:41:20

'either formally or informally.

0:41:200:41:22

'Had he made such an approach, I would never have countenanced

0:41:220:41:24

'supporting such a venture, much less have agreed to

0:41:240:41:28

'action it. That's it, thank you.'

0:41:280:41:30

Well, just to change the whole system...

0:42:240:42:26

Well, how very cosy.

0:42:280:42:32

Post mortem, is it?

0:42:320:42:33

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?

0:42:330:42:37

I mean, full bloody marks for ingenuity, mate.

0:42:370:42:40

It was up there in the stratosphere. What was it again?

0:42:400:42:44

"Political fortunes are made on bold ideas?"

0:42:440:42:48

Oh, and just so you know - clean sweep.

0:42:500:42:52

Next stop, criminal charges and deselection! Bonus, eh?

0:42:520:42:55

This is unwise, Bruce.

0:42:550:42:57

There she is! Come join us!

0:42:590:43:02

The Golden Couple, ladies and gents!

0:43:020:43:04

-Bruce, that's enough!

-So tell me. Was it his idea, or yours?

0:43:040:43:09

His Damascus conversion?

0:43:090:43:11

The...the...the "big idea" he spun me?

0:43:110:43:14

All that pillow talk planning it, perfecting it to reel me in.

0:43:140:43:18

-God, what a turn-on that must have been, eh?

-OK, I said, enough now.

0:43:180:43:21

-I'll just bet it made you wet, just thinking about it, eh?

-Hey, hey, hey, hey!

0:43:210:43:24

OK, OK!

0:43:240:43:26

Aargghh!

0:43:260:43:28

Get off!

0:43:290:43:30

Get him out!

0:43:310:43:33

-Get off me!

-Come on!

-As you were, show's over.

0:43:330:43:35

Well, over the years I've seen some pretty unseemly displays

0:43:410:43:45

in this place, but I have to say that takes pole position.

0:43:450:43:49

# Get out, quack, quack, get out Quack, quack, get out of town... #

0:44:040:44:08

'In your office.'

0:45:230:45:24

It wasn't enough he fucked me over,

0:45:400:45:41

I was supposed to stand by while he fucked my wife too?

0:45:410:45:44

I don't think so.

0:45:440:45:45

What was it? Proximity?

0:45:480:45:49

Lust?

0:45:510:45:52

A quick shag waiting for the division bell?

0:45:540:45:56

I thought as much.

0:45:580:46:00

I'm not going to dignify this with a response.

0:46:000:46:03

Do you remember how I used to joke what a crap liar you were? I stand corrected.

0:46:030:46:06

You have got it mastered on an industrial scale!

0:46:060:46:10

I mean, where to start? Well, what about the last one -

0:46:100:46:13

the other night with your constituents?

0:46:130:46:15

In his apartment the whole damn evening!

0:46:150:46:18

We were working!

0:46:180:46:19

So why did you lie?

0:46:190:46:20

To avoid this exact conversation that we are having now!

0:46:200:46:24

It was only ever in your head, Aiden.

0:46:260:46:30

All of it! Dress it up how you like.

0:46:300:46:33

I am not the reason that you did this, I am just the excuse.

0:46:330:46:36

Well, I'm sorry, turning the other cheek didn't do it for me, so...

0:46:360:46:41

So what was I, then? Collateral damage?

0:46:410:46:45

You could've taken me down with him!

0:46:450:46:47

Oh, God.

0:46:530:46:54

Oh, dear God.

0:46:560:46:57

That's it.

0:46:580:46:59

That's what you wanted, isn't it?

0:47:010:47:03

There's only ever been room for you at the top table.

0:47:090:47:13

Didn't I pay my dues all those years?

0:47:170:47:21

Supporting you, as your cheer leader.

0:47:230:47:24

What about the one time I counted on it, Freya?

0:47:240:47:27

When the world and his wife was watching in Westminster?

0:47:270:47:30

How hard would it have been? One little word?

0:47:300:47:33

"Do you support your husband?"

0:47:330:47:35

And so I had to be punished.

0:47:350:47:36

All your fine words yesterday in the House about ethics.

0:47:430:47:47

Oh, everyone says one thing in the House and does another,

0:47:470:47:50

that's the rules of engagement.

0:47:500:47:52

Well, that's your rules, not mine.

0:47:520:47:54

I just wanted things to go back to how they were.

0:48:010:48:04

When we were happy.

0:48:100:48:12

Is this it for us?

0:48:170:48:18

Is that what we're looking at here?

0:48:210:48:23

Love without respect.

0:48:230:48:24

Is that even possible?

0:48:270:48:29

You don't just...you don't just stop loving someone, Freya.

0:48:290:48:32

It doesn't work like that.

0:48:320:48:35

I can give it my best shot.

0:48:350:48:36

No good comes of listening at keyholes, as you used to say.

0:49:180:49:23

Yes.

0:49:230:49:24

He had to be stopped.

0:49:270:49:28

If anyone had told me you were capable of such duplicity,

0:49:280:49:33

I'd have told them they were a damn liar.

0:49:330:49:35

How was it up there on the moral high ground all those years

0:49:350:49:38

in the glass house of academia?

0:49:380:49:40

You've never had to get your hands dirty.

0:49:400:49:42

You have never had to sully yourself shovelling the shit on the front line.

0:49:420:49:47

You had me to do that for you!

0:49:470:49:48

I cannot, I WILL not, listen any more to your self-justifying crap!

0:49:480:49:53

How is it you have a son who's totally incapable of deception?

0:49:560:50:00

I have one...

0:50:000:50:02

for whom it's second bloody nature!

0:50:020:50:04

HE SIGHS

0:50:460:50:47

HE GASPS

0:50:520:50:54

Go and tell Daddy you're ready for school. He's in the shed.

0:51:560:51:59

Ah! Mummy!

0:52:020:52:05

Stay inside.

0:52:080:52:09

-Go inside.

-Dad!

0:52:120:52:14

-Go in sweetie!

-Dad? Dad?

0:52:140:52:16

Thanks for coming.

0:52:400:52:42

Good to see you, thank you.

0:52:420:52:45

Thanks for coming, Kenny, really great to see you.

0:52:450:52:49

Bye. Good to see you. Thank you.

0:52:490:52:52

I'll take the kids away somewhere at half term.

0:53:410:53:44

You can move out then.

0:53:470:53:49

CLAMOURING

0:55:150:55:18

'If a week is a long time in politics,

0:55:180:55:20

'six months is positively seismic.

0:55:200:55:23

'First, the resignation of former Prime Minister Duncan Craig...'

0:55:230:55:26

'After the Bruce Babbish sleaze scandal, then the surprise

0:55:260:55:28

'leadership victory which led to that convincing election victory...'

0:55:280:55:32

'Here they are, arriving together to take up the reins of power - one as

0:55:320:55:36

'Prime Minister, the other as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary.'

0:55:360:55:40

'There have been rumours of a marital split,

0:55:400:55:42

'that it's now just a marriage of political convenience,

0:55:420:55:44

'but there's little sign of that today as they prove to the party

0:55:440:55:47

'and the country that they are indeed the Golden Couple of politics.'

0:55:470:55:51

Thank you.

0:55:510:55:53

Are you ready for us, Prime Minister?

0:56:390:56:41

Yes, thank you, Marcus.

0:56:470:56:49

Welcome back.

0:56:570:56:58

Thank you.

0:57:030:57:04

Good morning, everyone.

0:57:110:57:13

Let's begin, shall we?

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