0:00:02 > 0:00:03NEWSCASTER: 'Westminster is in crisis mode
0:00:03 > 0:00:05'since Aiden Hoynes' resignation speech.'
0:00:05 > 0:00:08To be honest, I'm still trying to get my head around why he went ahead with it.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10My God, what is he doing to us?
0:00:10 > 0:00:12You're eliminating the competition.
0:00:12 > 0:00:14- I'm screwed, Freya. - You'll get back.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18- Wrong way!- We avoid the traffic this way!- Wrong way!
0:00:18 > 0:00:20- Freya Gardner. - Hello there, Freya.
0:00:20 > 0:00:21There's been a development.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26The PM will assume you've put ambition ahead of your loyalty to me
0:00:26 > 0:00:29and then when the time is right, you condemn his immigration stand.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33How many times have you stepped aside for him over the years, Freya?
0:00:33 > 0:00:36To stay top dog, you may have to unleash the bitch within you, Freya.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39- KIRSTY WARK:- You either support your husband's stand
0:00:39 > 0:00:41or you do not, which is it?
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Just because you don't agree with someone,
0:00:43 > 0:00:45doesn't mean you don't respect their point of view.
0:00:45 > 0:00:47We'll take that as a no then.
0:00:49 > 0:00:57This programme contains scenes of sexual violence and some strong language.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02DOOR OPENS, CLOSES
0:01:39 > 0:01:40What happened?
0:01:42 > 0:01:43An error of judgement.
0:01:52 > 0:01:58OK. Say it. I let you down.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04Worse. I betrayed your trust.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Say it! You're thinking it.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Put me out of my misery and bloody say it!
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Do you think that that was easy for me?
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Do you think that I wanted to do that?
0:02:33 > 0:02:37It's OK. You did what you had to do.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45It's about survival. I get it, I get it.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47I was wrong to push you into it.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Oh. Oh...
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Oh, thank God.
0:03:02 > 0:03:07All the way home, I kept thinking that I'd done for us.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10That we'd never get back from this.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13Come on.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15We're better than that.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20It's only bloody politics, isn't it?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33DOOR CLOSES
0:03:44 > 0:03:46So what was it?
0:03:50 > 0:03:53A summons to the Whip's office?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Veiled threats about how loyalty is a two-way street
0:03:56 > 0:03:59and this is where you earn your Party spurs?
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Oh, you know how Marcus is.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07He throws everything at the wall until something sticks.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Such as?
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Oh...
0:04:10 > 0:04:12No shame in self advancement as long
0:04:12 > 0:04:15as it coincides with the greater good.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17That's what stuck, is it?
0:04:17 > 0:04:18No.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Yeah.
0:04:21 > 0:04:22What?
0:04:26 > 0:04:30Do you remember how it felt when you were first elected?
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Standing on the podium.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39Not just the feeling that you were beating the odds but...
0:04:39 > 0:04:41You might actually change lives.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42Yeah.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47And then you get to Westminster and you realise that,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49that's just an illusion.
0:04:49 > 0:04:57That power, real power, is only ever on the front bench, isn't it?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01After all these years, Aiden.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05To finally walk into that cabinet room.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14There's no feeling like it. You must have felt it too.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Empowerment.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Diaphragm?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Done.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36SHE MOANS
0:05:55 > 0:05:57THEY PANT
0:06:11 > 0:06:13SHE GASPS
0:06:16 > 0:06:17HE GRUNTS
0:06:48 > 0:06:50SHE WHIMPERS
0:07:02 > 0:07:05HE SOBS
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Oh, God!
0:07:44 > 0:07:49- DITA:- Noah! Time to get dressed. You too, Ruby!
0:07:49 > 0:07:51RUBY: I can't find my ballet shoes, Dita.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59KNOCK ON DOOR
0:08:12 > 0:08:14Sorry.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18You hurt me, Aiden.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Tell me, do you feel better for it?
0:08:26 > 0:08:29We can all do things we're not proud of, Freya.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Do you remember when I first walked into Westminster with you
0:08:37 > 0:08:41after I was elected and everyone assumed that I was your researcher?
0:08:41 > 0:08:44Well I am done with waiting in the wings.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52Oh, the Times Magazine want to do a profile on us.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Could be a useful positioning piece for me.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56You don't need me for that.
0:08:56 > 0:09:01Oh what, and miss the chance to showcase our fairytale marriage?
0:09:01 > 0:09:02Our domestic idyll?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06We are the golden couple, after all.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36Kenny!
0:09:36 > 0:09:40Morning, Minister. Old habits. Sorry. Thanks.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42How's it going?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Yeah, can't complain. You?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Oh, still in the ring. Grandkids?
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Thriving. Tiring.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56You know my wife, Kenny,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58how she always likes to think the best of people?
0:10:00 > 0:10:01Can make her vulnerable.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I don't have to tell you what a cess pit Westminster is.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08- Shark infested, more like. - Mmmmm.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13How about you give me a heads up?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Just keep me in the loop on what's going on with her?
0:10:16 > 0:10:19That way I can always make sure her back is covered?
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Knowledge is power, all that.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23Consider it done.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46MACHINE WHIRS
0:10:46 > 0:10:47Aiden.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13That's what I said. I'd tell them!
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Wait in the car, sweet. Dad will be right there.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Why can't you take me to school?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29I have this new job now, I told you about it, remember?
0:11:29 > 0:11:33I promise I'll be home in time for bed, all right?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Kenny!
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Minister. Thanks.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49I assume it's all right for me to use your study?
0:11:49 > 0:11:53I need your ISDN line, more space for meetings.
0:11:55 > 0:11:56No problem.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05ENGINE STARTS
0:12:15 > 0:12:18I hope it goes without saying, Kenny that anything you hear in the car,
0:12:18 > 0:12:20stays in the car.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23No exceptions.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Yes, Minister.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33ON RADIO: 'Now throughout the summer we've been discussing books to
0:12:33 > 0:12:35'take on holiday for summer reading ranging from crime to
0:12:35 > 0:12:38'feminist literature and it's not too late.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41'The children are going back to school, which is when those
0:12:41 > 0:12:44'without kids take advantage of the cheaper prices and quieter
0:12:44 > 0:12:50'flights to catch some sun before autumn takes out and so to romance.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52'Always up in the best seller lists...'
0:12:52 > 0:12:55We'll need to target the most deprived areas
0:12:55 > 0:12:57in the pilot scheme first.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00All set for your big moment in the House later?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Bring it on.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06PHONE RINGS
0:13:09 > 0:13:10Aiden?
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Bad moment?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13Is everything OK? Is it Noah?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16No, no, no, no. Just...touching base, that's all.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18All good?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Is that Bruce?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23It's Drew.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Erm...I'd best get on. Bye.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45DIALS NUMBER
0:13:52 > 0:13:53Aiden.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Hey, how's it going?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58Yeah, good. Just running late for a meeting in the House.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Something I can do for you?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Aiden?
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Is Lian there?
0:14:09 > 0:14:10Hi.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14I was wondering, is it an idea I get copied into Freya's diary?
0:14:14 > 0:14:18That way I can give you back up. If I know what's coming up,
0:14:18 > 0:14:20we can guide her through the pitfalls together.
0:14:20 > 0:14:22I'll have to clear it with her first.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25And have her think we lack confidence in her?
0:14:25 > 0:14:26Rather you than me, love.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Bull's-eye.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Thanks.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26Dust.
0:16:11 > 0:16:16It goes without saying, Mr Speaker, how reluctant I am
0:16:16 > 0:16:19to speak against the Opposition.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21BOOING AND BRAYING
0:16:21 > 0:16:22- SPEAKER:- I will have order!
0:16:22 > 0:16:27But I have to say that it's beginning to
0:16:27 > 0:16:29feel like Groundhog Day!
0:16:30 > 0:16:32LAUGHTER AND BOOING
0:16:32 > 0:16:37How many times...how many times have they been banging on
0:16:37 > 0:16:40about the necessity of safeguards in the Bill?
0:16:40 > 0:16:43Yet these new draft proposals are just a rehash
0:16:43 > 0:16:45of all the previous ones.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50Little better than regurgitated sound bites
0:16:50 > 0:16:52for the benefit of the media!
0:16:52 > 0:16:55You'd know! You'd know!
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Mr Speaker!
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Mr Speaker, the Honourable Member opposite has been constantly
0:17:02 > 0:17:05lambasting us at every opportunity
0:17:05 > 0:17:10about the importance of integrating public services.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Yet these new safeguards that he has cobbled together,
0:17:13 > 0:17:20and about which he has been trumpeting so loudly to the media,
0:17:20 > 0:17:24they do the exact opposite!
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Here, here! Bravo!
0:17:28 > 0:17:30YELLING AND JEERING
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Robert!
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Hi, Jack, how are you? Good to see you.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Freddy.
0:17:59 > 0:18:04- Aiden, good to see you. - Thanks for finding the time.
0:18:07 > 0:18:13So. Here I am, present and incorrect, as requested.
0:18:13 > 0:18:18The vacancy on your committee. Is it filled yet?
0:18:20 > 0:18:24What, from Secretary of State to serve on a humble Select Committee?
0:18:24 > 0:18:28That's a bit of a downward quantum leap, isn't it?
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Well...since the beating we took over the expenses debacle
0:18:31 > 0:18:35the committees have got real teeth now, don't they?
0:18:35 > 0:18:39They can make a real impact on Government policy, curb its power,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41really, hold it to account.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Look, surely the fact that I ran the Department's a bonus.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50I have direct experience of its budget and expenditure.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Which means I can offer the committee unique insight
0:18:53 > 0:18:55into the viability of its policies.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Look, I know, I know.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05Some might see my presence on the committee as...divisive.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09That I'm somehow out to cause trouble for Babbish.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12No, nothing could be further from my mind.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18This is about drawing a line under the past, Freddy.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20About moving forward.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Frankly, I can't think of a better way to start than
0:19:25 > 0:19:26under your stewardship.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32I just want a chance to prove myself to the Party.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38You know, prove I'm, I'm still an asset, not a liability.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42And if you don't get elected.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45Could anything be worth the humiliation of that?
0:19:47 > 0:19:50If humiliation is the price for rehabilitation...
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Risk I have to take.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05On the subject of tweets, there's a hot one doing the rounds.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11That Babbish has rented office space in Victoria Street,
0:20:11 > 0:20:14purchased a dozen pay-as-you-go phones.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Hash-tag: leadershipcampaignHQ.
0:20:16 > 0:20:17Back in the day,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20when Portillo's stab at a leadership coup got blown,
0:20:20 > 0:20:22that nuked any chance he had, didn't it?
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Who tweeted it?
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Deepthroat25, so called.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Twittersphere's going mental over it.
0:20:31 > 0:20:37Incendiary stuff. Whoever's behind it is remarkably well informed.
0:20:38 > 0:20:44This place is always awash with...rumours of coitus or coups.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Your wife seems to have Babbish's ear of late.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Perhaps she's in the know on it?
0:20:52 > 0:20:54When the PM picks up on it is the point.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58A case of, "I can't stand the tweet, get out of my kitchen"
0:20:58 > 0:20:59wouldn't you say?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25You talked to the PM about those tweets yet?
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Bit of a car crash, I fear.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30Even on a good day he's convinced half the cabinet
0:22:30 > 0:22:32are scheming to oust him.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Who was it rallied the damn loyalists for him
0:22:34 > 0:22:36over Hoynes' bloody leadership fiasco?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Does that not count for anything?
0:22:38 > 0:22:40He claims it was opportunism,
0:22:40 > 0:22:44buying you time to micromanage your own leadership coup.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Uncharacteristically prescient, as it goes.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51When I do make my move, he'll see me coming now, won't he?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54He'll have a ring of bloody steel round him.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58The bastard behind that tweet has done for me, hasn't he?
0:22:58 > 0:23:03So change the mood music. Get something eye-catching on your blog.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06Or better still, get the FT or the Telegraph to run it.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10I'll hit the phones, put out a call to arms myself while I'm at it.
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Have you ever thought,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16if we devoted the same amount of time and energy
0:23:16 > 0:23:21to solving unemployment or child poverty as we do
0:23:21 > 0:23:26our Westminster power games, we might have solved them by now?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30I'll not forget your support on this, Marcus.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33I shall hold you to that.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Oh, by the by,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Hoynes has been putting himself about the Estate,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47pressing the flesh. Freddy Seaborn's in particular.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50Sounding him out about a vacancy on his committee.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53He gets onto that committee, he'll obstruct me at every turn!
0:23:53 > 0:23:55You think?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59And no pictures of the children.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Done.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03And any questions about Noah and Asperger's are off limits.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05I've made that clear.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09And please, not the woman juggling home and career thing.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Aiden called this morning, asking to be copied into your diary.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20To give him a heads up, should you need advice or...?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23I said I'd have to run it by you first. Obviously.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27My diary is confidential, Lian. No exceptions.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31No, of course. Absolutely.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44DOOR BUZZES
0:24:44 > 0:24:47- She about?- I'll just go and... - Nah, I know the way.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Thought we could grab a quick one before you head home?
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Few things we need to cover before the CBI gig tomorrow.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Can't we have a briefing before the meeting, Bruce?
0:25:02 > 0:25:04I need to get home for the kids' bedtime.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06All well? You seem a little...
0:25:08 > 0:25:13The notes for the CBI agenda are there if you want sight of them.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18This Twitter thing. It's, it's not Aiden's handiwork is it?
0:25:18 > 0:25:21- He'd never stoop that low. - Not even to conquer?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22HE LAUGHS
0:25:24 > 0:25:27No, you're right, he'd never put you in harm's way like that.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35Well if it got out, you'd be guilty by association, wouldn't you?
0:26:14 > 0:26:17Freya arranged it. She said you knew about it.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32How was it with Noah today?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34How do you think?
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Shifting the gear out my office,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39you know how he is about strangers in the house.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I naively assumed we'd be sharing the office,
0:27:46 > 0:27:48not that I'd be banished to the shed.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Is that what I was all those years?
0:27:55 > 0:27:58So your turn at the dispatch box today was a triumph.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02You don't need me to tell you that.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Lian says you were asking to be copied into my diary.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Help co-ordinate things on the childcare front.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Just trying to keep a jump ahead, Freya. Cover the bases.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38D'you catch those tweets about Bruce?
0:28:39 > 0:28:42Who hasn't? Trending all day.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Any ideas who's behind it?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Someone on his staff probably.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52You know what a high-handed prick he can be.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00How's he holding up under it?
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Barely seen him all day.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54- SHE LAUGHS - Lovely.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58That's great. That's lovely, good.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01- Just a bit of space. - That'll do, that'll do.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04- That's it, that's the one. Lovely, well done.- Great!
0:30:04 > 0:30:05Thanks.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09So the focus is as much on the personal as the political.
0:30:09 > 0:30:10If you're ready?
0:30:15 > 0:30:18Since your promotion to Cabinet,
0:30:18 > 0:30:22have the demands of it impacted much on family life?
0:30:22 > 0:30:25Oh, we're pretty adept at juggling all that now.
0:30:25 > 0:30:26It's about organisation as ever and...
0:30:26 > 0:30:29Anticipating problems before they whack you in the face.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Communicating, not competing.
0:30:31 > 0:30:33But politics is competitive.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37"A blood sport," didn't someone call it?
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Which is why we never bring it home.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43Once we're through that front door, that's it. Family and each other.
0:30:43 > 0:30:47So does Freya's new job mean that you're now picking up
0:30:47 > 0:30:50the slack on the domestic front?
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Cooking and so forth?
0:30:53 > 0:30:55I can turn my hand to it when needed.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58He's being modest. His moussaka is second to none.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00It's a Serbian recipe rather than the Greek.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Kefir yoghurt instead of bechamel.
0:31:02 > 0:31:05We have some in the freezer if you want to take it home.
0:31:07 > 0:31:11Do you wear anything special when you're cooking? An apron?
0:31:11 > 0:31:13A chef's jacket?
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Perhaps we can get a picture of you in it?
0:31:15 > 0:31:16Ah...
0:31:16 > 0:31:19Aiden doesn't wear an apron any more than I wear a pinny.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21We're not that anachronistic.
0:31:21 > 0:31:26Not so long ago you said you hadn't ruled out having another child.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Westminster's hardly mother friendly,
0:31:29 > 0:31:33let alone holding down a demanding Cabinet post.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Is that another sacrifice that you're prepared to make?
0:31:36 > 0:31:38We're more than happy with our family the way it is.
0:31:38 > 0:31:43Even if it was on our radar, which it's not, this is Freya's moment.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Any sacrifice would be worth that.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47That's quite a man you have.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53We've grown used to politicians parading their wives
0:31:53 > 0:31:55for public display.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Yet the husbands of female politicians
0:31:58 > 0:32:00remain largely invisible.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02Perhaps they prefer their privacy.
0:32:02 > 0:32:04It's not because the success of their wives
0:32:04 > 0:32:06might make them appear...
0:32:06 > 0:32:08Emasculated?
0:32:10 > 0:32:12You'd have to ask them that.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17Of course, you already have a public profile.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20But political ambition's in your DNA.
0:32:20 > 0:32:24It must be a wrench, watching Freya going off every day,
0:32:24 > 0:32:27living the life you once had?
0:32:27 > 0:32:31Aiden has always been very supportive over my career.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34Never more so than now.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36Yet on television, when asked if you backed him
0:32:36 > 0:32:39over his stand on the immigration issue,
0:32:39 > 0:32:42your answer could hardly be construed as supportive of him.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49Having different perspectives
0:32:49 > 0:32:53and opinions is what makes a marriage strong.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55It keeps it vital, alive.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58If Freya should ever decide to go for the leadership,
0:32:58 > 0:33:00would you support her in that too?
0:33:00 > 0:33:03100%. She'd be the candidate to beat.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Even if you were after the job yourself?
0:33:06 > 0:33:10Assuming Bruce Babbish doesn't get there first, of course.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20There are barely half a dozen spaces for disability badges
0:33:20 > 0:33:24yet time and again you see able-bodied people parking in them.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28I'll look into it and get back to you.
0:33:28 > 0:33:29Thank you, sir.
0:33:41 > 0:33:42Thank you.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50They just don't get it, do they?
0:33:53 > 0:33:56They think that influence is the same as power.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00It's not even close.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09- Ruby in bed?- Yeah.
0:34:23 > 0:34:27The office rental was not for a leadership campaign HQ,
0:34:27 > 0:34:30as has been alleged, but simply to provide overspill space
0:34:30 > 0:34:32for my parliamentary office.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34As for the pay-as-you-go phones,
0:34:34 > 0:34:36they were purchased for local Party workers,
0:34:36 > 0:34:38gearing up for the forthcoming council elections.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41But has the Prime Minister asked for your resignation, Minister?
0:34:41 > 0:34:43I have just left the Prime Minister.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47As he says, such toxic twitter campaigns
0:34:47 > 0:34:49are nothing short of a coward's charter.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52He told me I have his full and unconditional support.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56As far as he is concerned, that is the end of the matter.
0:34:56 > 0:34:58HE MUTES TV
0:35:00 > 0:35:01Isn't that your old office?
0:35:01 > 0:35:03Mmmm.
0:35:03 > 0:35:08We waited there with the children, didn't we? At Christmas we...
0:35:08 > 0:35:12We went to...what was it? What is it that you call it?
0:35:12 > 0:35:14A pantomime.
0:35:49 > 0:35:50Catch you later.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53Not rushing off, are you, Freddy?
0:35:53 > 0:35:55Well depends if, err, it's an offer I can't refuse.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59A double of whatever he was imbibing and a whisky, no ice.
0:35:59 > 0:36:00Certainly, sir.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02Looking good, Freddy.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06A diet of pasta and red wine, you too could have a body like mine.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09Marcus was telling me about your godson.
0:36:09 > 0:36:14Impressive young man by all accounts. Lancaster University, yes?
0:36:14 > 0:36:16- Loughborough.- Of course.
0:36:16 > 0:36:21Word is he's after a research job in the Fiscal Policy Unit?
0:36:21 > 0:36:23Won't be a shoo-in.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26He'll face stiff competition from the usual Oxbridge mafia.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29Have to put our heads together,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32see if we can't shorten the odds for him, eh?
0:36:32 > 0:36:35Prove that social mobility is alive and well in Westminster.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39Shouldn't be beyond our combined ingenuity.
0:36:39 > 0:36:40Chin-chin.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06THEY LAUGH
0:37:40 > 0:37:42Damn thing keeps playing up.
0:37:42 > 0:37:43Battery?
0:37:46 > 0:37:47Battery?
0:37:50 > 0:37:52New one in this morning.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Has he joined in at all?
0:38:03 > 0:38:06His teacher had a word when I picked him up from school.
0:38:06 > 0:38:10Apparently he's very withdrawn of late.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16Freya's not around as much, is she? Or I'm the poor substitute.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19It's early days.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Freya thought learning to swim would help his confidence.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28His co-ordination.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32- That was what, three years ago? - How is Freya?
0:38:36 > 0:38:38I saw them together, Dad.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41She and Bruce.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47In Westminster. Thick as bloody thieves.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Their departments often have to work in tandem, don't they?
0:38:52 > 0:38:55- It's inevitable that... - She lied, Dad.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59When his name came up, she lied about seeing him.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02To protect you, I expect. In case you thought she was...
0:39:02 > 0:39:04Fraternizing with the enemy?
0:39:07 > 0:39:10PHONE RINGS
0:39:21 > 0:39:22Freddy, what news?
0:39:22 > 0:39:25Hit a bit of a snag on the committee issue, Aiden.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28There is no vacancy after all.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Roger Quincy changed his mind about resigning.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34- I thought he had health problems? - Yeah, bloody gout would you believe?
0:39:34 > 0:39:37Talk about big girl's blouse. One sneeze and it's swine flu.
0:39:37 > 0:39:41He formally resigned, Freddy. You can still force a vote.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Babbish got to him, didn't he?
0:39:47 > 0:39:50It's a cockup, it's not a conspiracy!
0:39:50 > 0:39:52And there are other committees.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Nothing very special about this one, is there?
0:39:54 > 0:39:56All right.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00Fuck!
0:40:55 > 0:40:57WHISTLE BLOWS
0:40:57 > 0:41:00Everybody get out of the pool! Come on, out you get!
0:41:00 > 0:41:01Out you get!
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Come on, come on, that's it, that's it, good boy.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07What is it? What's happened?
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Oh, dear God. I'm on my way.
0:41:17 > 0:41:21Come on out, Noah. Your tea's here. You must eat.
0:41:21 > 0:41:22Peanut butter, your favourite.
0:41:22 > 0:41:25Cut diagonals, no crusts, just as you like them.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31You've had a scare. A big one.
0:41:31 > 0:41:35And the best thing, when something like that happens,
0:41:35 > 0:41:37is to talk to people.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41To be with people. Mmmm? Not shut yourself away.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46TENT UNZIPS
0:42:34 > 0:42:36RECORDING OF WAVES GENTLY LAPPING PLAYS
0:42:46 > 0:42:48RECORDING STOPS
0:43:02 > 0:43:06OK, come on, let's get it over with.
0:43:06 > 0:43:10How I took my eye off the ball, we nearly lost him.
0:43:10 > 0:43:11Mmmm. We didn't, did we?
0:43:16 > 0:43:18What, it never happened to me?
0:43:18 > 0:43:20What about when he went AWOL
0:43:20 > 0:43:23and they found him wandering in the park?
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Or...when he had a tantrum at the station
0:43:26 > 0:43:29and nearly jumped off the platform?
0:43:30 > 0:43:32You're human, join the club.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00Sometimes I feel like that man.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04What was his name, the one who the Gods punished by making him
0:44:04 > 0:44:07roll a boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again,
0:44:07 > 0:44:09but he had to do it for all eternity?
0:44:09 > 0:44:11Sisyphus.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16But it's Noah's who's being punished, isn't it?
0:44:16 > 0:44:19I mean, we can go to work, we can get away from it.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23The Asperger's. But...he can't.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25There's no escape.
0:44:26 > 0:44:30People often ask me if I feel guilty leaving him.
0:44:30 > 0:44:34Mostly...I just feel relief.
0:44:35 > 0:44:41To be free from his rituals and his obsessions, just for a few hours.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43SHE SIGHS
0:44:44 > 0:44:46What's that say about me?
0:44:48 > 0:44:50How brave you are.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53Admitting it.
0:45:11 > 0:45:12Diaphragm.
0:45:18 > 0:45:22Oh, I have to go to Birmingham in the morning with Bruce.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25How so?
0:45:25 > 0:45:29Joint initiative, unemployed setting up their own companies.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32I'll see how Noah is in the morning and if it comes to it,
0:45:32 > 0:45:34Bruce can go on his own.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47Oh please, no, not that again.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50It's that look you get whenever I mention his name.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56I applied to be on the BIS Select Committee, did he tell you?
0:45:56 > 0:45:58Nuked before I got airborne.
0:45:58 > 0:46:00And you assume Bruce did that?
0:46:02 > 0:46:04Fine, whatever.
0:46:04 > 0:46:09I'm wasting my breath. I don't know why the fuck I bother.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20I'll try. I will.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31I'm so sorry.
0:46:33 > 0:46:34Love me?
0:46:35 > 0:46:37I never stopped.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00HE PANTS
0:47:04 > 0:47:06HE GROANS
0:47:06 > 0:47:09It's OK. It's all right.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19- No.- I want to.
0:47:22 > 0:47:23No!
0:48:39 > 0:48:43ON RADIO: 'Now that Ms Gardner's finally stepped out from the shadow of her husband,
0:48:43 > 0:48:45'it's safe to say we're looking at a politician
0:48:45 > 0:48:47'who's definitely found her mojo.'
0:48:47 > 0:48:51'Now the question whether or not the great explorer George Mannering
0:48:51 > 0:48:54'reached the summit of Everest in 1924 has been disputed for years.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57'During the 1924 British Everest expedition,
0:48:57 > 0:49:00'Mannering and his climbing partner...'
0:49:05 > 0:49:06Jesus!
0:49:06 > 0:49:09I have to do this. Please don't speak.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12I have eyes. I know what goes on this house.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14And I know you would never ask.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17- You are too good a man. Too loyal and...- Dita.
0:49:17 > 0:49:18Dita!
0:49:18 > 0:49:22No-one need know. It is between us, the two of us.
0:49:22 > 0:49:24I'll know! Just...cover yourself.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27I'm flattered but it's not happening, OK?
0:49:32 > 0:49:34I'll pack my bags. Leave in the morning.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36No, there's no need for that.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38It was a misunderstanding. We'll put it behind us.
0:49:38 > 0:49:39It never happened, OK?
0:49:42 > 0:49:44Dita?
0:49:47 > 0:49:51Did I ever suggest, ever imply, that this was even a possibility?
0:49:52 > 0:49:56You're a man. You have needs, don't you?
0:50:07 > 0:50:09Off out for a bit.
0:50:09 > 0:50:10OK.
0:50:12 > 0:50:14DOOR CLOSES
0:50:18 > 0:50:19That's enough!
0:50:21 > 0:50:24That's 30 seconds down on last time.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Technically, we should keep moving.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29Technically, we should be in the bloody pub.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33How's Noah doing?
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Missing his mother, as ever.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39Can't be easy for Freya either.
0:50:39 > 0:50:41When she's not wowing Westminster.
0:50:44 > 0:50:47You knew what you were doing, Aiden, when you resigned.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51You played the odds and you lost.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53- With a little help from a friend. - That wasn't down to her!
0:50:57 > 0:50:59All those years you were riding high,
0:50:59 > 0:51:02she sat in the back seat for you, didn't she?
0:51:02 > 0:51:05She did it without rancour, without self pity.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09Don't tell me it's beyond you to forgive her.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39HE PANTS
0:53:33 > 0:53:35We needed a debrief before Cabinet tomorrow.
0:53:35 > 0:53:37The car was more private than the train.
0:53:37 > 0:53:39Is that good enough?
0:53:43 > 0:53:45Where are the kids?
0:53:45 > 0:53:47Dita took them to Dad's for the night.
0:54:12 > 0:54:15I wish to God I knew where your damn head was these days.
0:54:15 > 0:54:17Me too.
0:54:21 > 0:54:22I'm through it now, Freya.
0:54:25 > 0:54:29The feud with Bruce, all of it. I'm done with it.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31- Truly?- Mmmm.
0:54:39 > 0:54:40I'll drink to that.
0:54:40 > 0:54:41GLASSES CLINK
0:54:41 > 0:54:43I was beginning to bore myself, frankly.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Seconded.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50Thank God you hung in.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58The moussaka will be a while yet.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05I've got a few emails to send.
0:55:09 > 0:55:10Don't be long.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05Mummy! Dita's run away. She's taken all her stuff.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08I never came onto her. Not in thought, not in deed.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11Then why would she claim such a thing, Aiden?
0:56:11 > 0:56:12It took two of them to drag him off.
0:56:12 > 0:56:16They think it was triggered by what's been happening at home.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18I am not the reason that you did this.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19I am just the excuse.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22Don't worry about Freya. Everyone knows your marriage is bullet proof.
0:56:22 > 0:56:26The way I see it, it's up to me to find a way out of our impasse.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28An idea I came up with while I was still
0:56:28 > 0:56:29running Business and Skills.
0:56:29 > 0:56:33In the end, we're all sacrificed on the altar of his ambition.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36You have a son who's totally incapable of deception.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39I have one for whom it's second bloody nature!
0:56:39 > 0:56:42If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas, Mr Speaker,
0:56:42 > 0:56:44and we are infested with them.
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