0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains some strong language.
0:00:04 > 0:00:08- You hurt me.- We all do things we're not proud of.- No more waiting in the wings.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11- Can I get copied in to Freya's diary? - My diary is confidential, Lian.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14I naively assumed we'd be sharing the office, not that I'd be in the shed.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18This Twitter thing. It's, it's not Aiden's handiwork, is it?
0:00:18 > 0:00:19He'd never stoop that low.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20Has he joined in at all?
0:00:20 > 0:00:22He's very withdrawn of late.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24Dita! I'm flattered, but it's not happening, OK?
0:00:24 > 0:00:28- About to do a piece on your better half. Quite a show she put on back there.- I saw them together.
0:00:28 > 0:00:33- Thick as bloody thieves.- It's that look you get whenever I mention his name.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35I wish to God I knew where your damn head was these days.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40I'm through it now, Freya. The feud with Bruce. All of it. I'm done with it.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46SIGHING AND GROANING
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Golly. Twice last night and again this morning.
0:00:57 > 0:01:02I hope that's not a guilty conscience?
0:01:02 > 0:01:04When a man has a sudden libido surge,
0:01:04 > 0:01:08don't they say it's to prevent his wife from twigging his infidelity?
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Do you mind if I jump in first?
0:01:12 > 0:01:13Go for it.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21SHOWER WATER RUNS
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Thanks for coming. PHONE RINGS
0:02:19 > 0:02:22- Hi.- Ruby hasn't been picked up from school.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27Well, Dita never showed to collect her!
0:02:27 > 0:02:28Dita?
0:02:28 > 0:02:29Can I watch some TV?
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Yeah, ten minutes and then tea.
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Dita!
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Dita! Me again. Same message.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Just call, OK? You owe us that much.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Noah, tea's up.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09PHONE RINGS
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Eat, both of you.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15Hello?
0:03:18 > 0:03:21She's our au pair, yes... Or was.
0:03:23 > 0:03:24Sorry, who is this?
0:03:24 > 0:03:25It's gone over the line!
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- Hold on!- It's over the line!!
0:03:27 > 0:03:32OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, look!
0:03:34 > 0:03:37Right. Fine.
0:03:37 > 0:03:38All right? OK.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Say that again.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47When did you send it?
0:03:51 > 0:03:52COMPUTER BEEPS
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Yeah, OK, I have it.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Just give me a...
0:04:17 > 0:04:18Yeah, OK.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25OK, well, thanks, anyway. Bye. Bye.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28An injunction's useless. They'll just put the story on Facebook
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Or Twitter. We're still screwed.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34It's the old tabloid trick, isn't it? Tempt her with a wad of dosh to dish the dirt.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Mummy! Dita's run away! She's taken all her stuff!
0:04:37 > 0:04:41All right, sweetie. What are you watching? Come on, let's...
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Sit down. I'll come and see you in a few minutes, all right?
0:04:43 > 0:04:46TELEVISION: 'Now you are an inventor...'
0:04:49 > 0:04:52When the cupboard's bare they conjure up this risible shite.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56The sun, it seems, still rises.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Oh, don't say it. Tell...tell me you're not actually buying it?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07I never touched her!
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Freya! I never looked at her. I never came on to her.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15Not in thought, not in deed!
0:05:15 > 0:05:18Good God, you really think I would shit on my own doorstep like that?
0:05:18 > 0:05:20- But you would elsewhere?- Oh...
0:05:20 > 0:05:23Then why would she claim such a thing, Aiden?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Why would she do that to you? To us?
0:05:28 > 0:05:30The other day, I was in the bath.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32She walks in.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35Trust me, it was an offer I had no trouble refusing.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36This is payback.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40And telling me about it just slipped your mind?
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I was afraid you'd fire her, we'd be up shit creek!
0:05:43 > 0:05:46I thought I'd put her straight. I'd dealt with it.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47That went well.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50The only thing you can lay at my door is naivety, Freya!
0:05:50 > 0:05:55I underestimated what a... vindictive, mendacious cow she is!
0:05:55 > 0:06:01Dear God! That you can even begin to think that I could be capable...
0:06:01 > 0:06:03What sort of marriage is this? What are we doing?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06- Don't say that.- Why, does not saying it make it less true?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12These last few weeks, it's as if...
0:06:12 > 0:06:14we're flying blind.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18We keep losing sight of each other.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I know you feel it, too. I know it.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27We're still good, aren't we, Aiden?
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Of course we're good.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Don't even go there.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42'Next, the Guardian - "Golden couple tarnished by affair with nanny".
0:06:42 > 0:06:47'The Times gets in on the act - "Au Pair quits job over Hoynes' alleged sex antics".
0:06:47 > 0:06:50'The Sun - "Hoynes is a sex pest says nanny".
0:06:50 > 0:06:54'The Daily Express - "Nanny alleges Aiden Hoynes is sex addict".
0:06:54 > 0:06:59'And the Star goes in hard - "Did Hoynes get it on with nanny?"'
0:06:59 > 0:07:00MOBILE PHONE RINGS
0:07:00 > 0:07:04'Did the Prime Minister's moratorium on immigration...'
0:07:34 > 0:07:35It'll be fine.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44I know you've come a long way.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47Let's make this brief, so you can decamp,
0:07:47 > 0:07:48we can all get on with our day.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Let me say this.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52The accusations that Dita Kowalski has made
0:07:52 > 0:07:56against my husband are without foundation.
0:07:56 > 0:08:0118 months ago we welcomed her into our home as our nanny.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03- Has she gone back to Poland? - We welcomed her into our home
0:08:03 > 0:08:07and yet in all that time she has never once raised the issue of
0:08:07 > 0:08:11my husband's alleged inappropriate behaviour, not with me,
0:08:11 > 0:08:16not with the agency who recruited her, or with any of her friends.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19'Dita's actions are a gross violation
0:08:19 > 0:08:23'of the trust we showed her. I am sure
0:08:23 > 0:08:27'SHE will come to deeply regret the injustice she has done to us
0:08:27 > 0:08:28'and in that sense...
0:08:28 > 0:08:31'she is as much of a victim of her actions as we are.'
0:08:33 > 0:08:35'Aiden Hoynes and Freya Gardner...'
0:08:35 > 0:08:38Kiss at the garden gate routine, always a winner.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Might take more than a kiss to win her over.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Morning, everyone.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46My office. Two minutes, carers' allowance briefing.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Aiden! Thanks for this.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28I thought it less formal if we met here.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33If less private. I hope it goes without saying, Marcus,
0:09:33 > 0:09:35these absurd allegations have absolutely no basis.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Good God, yes. Totally.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41My lawyer is demanding a full retraction or we'll slap a libel suit on her.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43He's confident we'll get a result.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Excellent. Job done, then.
0:09:47 > 0:09:53Extraordinary thing for her to assert, though. Out of the blue.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55It seems she had something of a crush on me.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57Lordy!
0:09:57 > 0:10:01You were wise not to share that with our feral friends in the press.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Less meat on the bone, the less they have to chew on.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11A statement of support from the PM would square the circle, Marcus.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Or am I still on the naughty step?
0:10:14 > 0:10:18For Freya's sake, not mine. She's barely got her feet under the cabinet table, has she?
0:10:18 > 0:10:22That's a brutal baptism for anyone.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27We've the Party Funding debate coming up.
0:10:27 > 0:10:32If I told him you were prepared to champion his position on it,
0:10:32 > 0:10:37coming from you, his staunchest critic,
0:10:37 > 0:10:39it could turn the tide for him.
0:10:40 > 0:10:45I can guarantee in advance he'd be more than appreciative of such a gesture.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Don't worry about Freya. She's tougher than you think.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Everyone knows your marriage is bullet-proof.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Marcus?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03You and Bruce, I know you're close.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I know how loyal you've been to him over the years.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08I respect that, I do. God knows...
0:11:08 > 0:11:11God knows we could do with a bit more of that in this place.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16But...he and I were that way once too.
0:11:16 > 0:11:22Best friends from university, best man at each other's weddings,
0:11:22 > 0:11:26godfather to my children. You don't get closer than that.
0:11:26 > 0:11:31I still got royally shafted, didn't I?
0:11:31 > 0:11:34In the end...
0:11:34 > 0:11:38we're all sacrificed on the altar of his ambition.
0:11:40 > 0:11:41We're all expendable.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46No-one is exempt.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02It was in the music class, apparently.
0:12:02 > 0:12:07Er, a boy had a tambourine, Noah decided he wanted it
0:12:07 > 0:12:10and when the boy refused, Noah went ballistic -
0:12:10 > 0:12:13biting, hitting, lashing out at him.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16It took two of them to drag him off.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23They think it was triggered by what's been happening at home.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27The business with Dita.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31I hope you told them not to believe everything they read in the papers.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Come on!
0:13:23 > 0:13:26God knows what the future holds for him.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28What happens when he's a six-foot hormonal teenager,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30he kicks off like he did with that kid today?
0:13:30 > 0:13:35Well, by then he'll be more mature, won't he? Easier to reach.
0:13:40 > 0:13:45En route home from his school we often pass a bunch of boys in the park, kicking a ball around.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49When I look at them...
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Put it this way, I'm not proud of how it makes me feel.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01I just thank God he doesn't feel it too.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Envy.
0:14:07 > 0:14:08Anger.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10How do you know he doesn't feel it?
0:14:16 > 0:14:19When's Freya back?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Late. She has some constituents visiting the House.
0:14:24 > 0:14:30Would it help if I stay over weeknights, give you a hand
0:14:30 > 0:14:32until you're sorted on the childcare?
0:14:34 > 0:14:35Yeah.
0:14:35 > 0:14:36OK.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56DOOR ENTRY BUZZER SOUNDS
0:15:00 > 0:15:01- Hi.- Hi.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06I've barely an hour. I've got some councillors from the constituency in for a tour of the House.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Er, you wanted to go through our growth strategy proposal again?
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Um, you were right,
0:15:11 > 0:15:14the tax incentive figures don't stack up. Well spotted.
0:15:16 > 0:15:17Is it just us?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I thought your team would be here.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23I'll debrief them later.
0:15:23 > 0:15:27I chased our working paper on the pension pilot scheme...
0:15:27 > 0:15:32This tour for your constituents - can't someone stand in for you?
0:15:32 > 0:15:33I wish.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Sarah. Where are you meeting them?
0:15:40 > 0:15:41St Stephen's Gate.
0:15:41 > 0:15:46Freya Gardner has some constituents due in for a tour of the House in an hour? She's been held up.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50Do the honours for her? Keep them sweet?
0:15:50 > 0:15:51You are a treasure.
0:15:51 > 0:15:52FREYA LAUGHS
0:15:55 > 0:15:57You really are a piece of work.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59I try, God knows.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45Mm. We made progress tonight, don't you think?
0:16:47 > 0:16:50It was a ruse, to get you here.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57I thought you could use a friend, given the day you've had.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00All those prurient eyes on you.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04"Did he or didn't he?" "Isn't he getting enough at home?"
0:17:04 > 0:17:06And this was your idea for cheering me up?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12If for a moment I doubted Aiden,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15today would have been the purgatory you say it was. But...
0:17:17 > 0:17:20..since I don't, it wasn't.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25I've often wondered how it must feel.
0:17:25 > 0:17:30To have someone always onside. Always...thinking the best of you.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Unconditionally.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36It has to be earned, Bruce.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43You'd never know it to look at it, would you?
0:17:47 > 0:17:53All that Gothic elegance hides such rancid base instincts.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57I include my own in that, needless to say.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08PHONE RINGS
0:18:08 > 0:18:10- Evening, sir.- 'Kenny.'
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Any idea when I might expect my wife home?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14Can't help, I'm afraid.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18She let me go for the night. I dropped her at Mr Babbish's apartment.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19You could try her there.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23OK, I'll do that. Thanks, bye.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43'He's only human, isn't he?'
0:18:44 > 0:18:48Knocking around that house every day, alone with your nanny.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52What is it they say?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56The best way to rid yourself of temptation is to yield to it?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58I really don't need this, Bruce.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Say I'm right, hypothetically.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Your reputation will be on the line right along with his, Freya.
0:19:06 > 0:19:14Standing by your man is all very commendable if you're Mrs Joe Bloggs from Woking.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18Different rules apply if the wife is a cabinet minister.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Uber-loyalty can be seen as a lack of judgement, of weakness.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Worse, as moral turpitude.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Why are you saying this? Why are you doing all this?
0:19:33 > 0:19:34You know why.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52Been a long time coming, Freya.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05What do you want from me, Bruce?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10A quick fling? Or something more?
0:20:10 > 0:20:11What do you think?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17And what if it got out?
0:20:17 > 0:20:19You're right, different rules apply.
0:20:20 > 0:20:23Two cabinet ministers getting it on?
0:20:25 > 0:20:29One a wife and mother and the other an old family friend?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34We'd both crash and burn.
0:20:36 > 0:20:37I'll risk it if you will.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41You'd really do that for me?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44In a heartbeat.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53I'm sorry, but...
0:20:53 > 0:20:55do I really look like someone
0:20:55 > 0:20:58who's just acquired an IQ in single figures?
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Nice try, Lothario.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20CAR DRIVES AWAY
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I hope this isn't a guilty conscience?
0:22:29 > 0:22:30Diaphragm?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32I binned it. I'm on the pill now.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I'll double them up for a couple of weeks to be sure.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Don't we usually talk about stuff like that?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41What, as in asking permission?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46We need to be failsafe now, so I sorted it.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Don't make something out of nothing.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59How was it with your constituents?
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Tedious. I thought they'd never leave.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Daddy! Daddy, I've got a tummy ache!
0:23:21 > 0:23:23Wait and see if she settles.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Daddy, my tummy hurts!
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Daddy!
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Have you remembered that I'm in Leeds overnight?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Launching the new apprenticeship scheme.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58You OK to do the school run?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Mmm. Dad and I have got it covered.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04The debate on the Party Funding Bill's tomorrow.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06You be back for it?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10I'm throwing my hat in the ring.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I'll make damn sure I'm back for it.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17If you want to run anything by me, we can talk on the phone tonight?
0:26:17 > 0:26:18No, I'm on top of it.
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Freya?
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Don't want any slip-ups, do we?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Starting to think it was a no-show.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00Curiosity won the day. A failing of mine.
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Among others.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04I assume it's still a favourite?
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Best to keep a clear head.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13I'm not eating.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Squid risotto.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Now the niceties are over.
0:27:25 > 0:27:26This enmity between us, Bruce.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30I want to put an end to it.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34I'm not asking for myself.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36But for Freya.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43Your two departments have allied responsibilities - if she's to work effectively with you,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45she has to be...
0:27:45 > 0:27:47unencumbered by what happened between us.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53So the way I see it, it's up to me...
0:27:53 > 0:27:55to find a way out of our impasse.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00To convince her that I'm ready to put the past to rest, I've moved on.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03But...
0:28:03 > 0:28:06it has to be more than empty words.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08I have to prove it to her.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26An idea I came up while I was still running Business And Skills.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Before I got sidetracked by the damn leadership thing.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34What are the two biggest problems facing our society today?
0:28:36 > 0:28:39The ticking time bomb of caring for the elderly
0:28:39 > 0:28:43and the burden on the state supporting a 100,000 immigrants who can't work
0:28:43 > 0:28:46while their applications to stay are processed.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50So why not use one problem to solve the other?
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Many of those immigrants are educated, intelligent people
0:28:55 > 0:28:58with a cultural ethos of respecting the elderly.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02So, we put them to work...
0:29:02 > 0:29:04looking after our own elderly in their own homes.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10In return, they get bonus points on their applications to remain here.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13We save millions on their benefits.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16And billions on caring for the elderly in care homes.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27How do you propose to fund such a scheme?
0:29:30 > 0:29:33Outsource it to the private sector.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Everyone else is at it, why not this?
0:29:35 > 0:29:38Your Daily Mail reader's banging on about the elderly.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Guardian reader's banging on about the plight of immigrants.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45Right and left are assuaged in one blow.
0:29:47 > 0:29:48It's a win-win deal.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52Not to mention a vote-winning one.
0:29:57 > 0:30:01Did you float it with any outsource companies?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Mmmm. A new start-up one, Charlesburg Investments, I rather fancied.
0:30:05 > 0:30:10They have capital and they're hungry for a major Government contract.
0:30:10 > 0:30:12They'll do whatever it takes to win it.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28Is that it? Only I have a two o'clock.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30No matter what our history, Bruce,
0:30:30 > 0:30:35I know that your respect and affection for Freya
0:30:35 > 0:30:37means you'll do the right thing by her.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42God knows she deserves it.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46TEXT MESSAGE ALERT
0:32:05 > 0:32:06Excuse me a second.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12We have a green light. Go for it.
0:32:12 > 0:32:13Again, come on! That's it.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17Right, this is going to be good.
0:32:17 > 0:32:18Again, again to me!
0:32:18 > 0:32:19Oh. Hi, Dad!
0:32:19 > 0:32:21- Come on!- Oh, well done.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26- And he scores!- Yes!
0:32:26 > 0:32:28If you can't beat 'em...
0:32:29 > 0:32:31Come on!
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Kick it to Ruby, go on!
0:32:34 > 0:32:36That's it, back up, take a run at it.
0:32:36 > 0:32:38Go on, Noah! Do what Daddy says.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40That's it! Good boy.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43Come on.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Come on, Noah, kick it!
0:32:48 > 0:32:50It's OK.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53- Come on, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me...- Ready, ready! Go! - Go on, hit it!
0:32:53 > 0:32:55- Oh, Dad!- Grandpa!
0:32:57 > 0:33:00- Oh!- Grandpa?
0:33:04 > 0:33:08I had you fooled, and you thought... But I wasn't, I was just pretending!
0:33:08 > 0:33:10I was only pretending!
0:33:10 > 0:33:12SHE LAUGHS
0:33:12 > 0:33:15It's all right, it's a joke, he's fine!
0:33:15 > 0:33:18He was pretending, to make us laugh.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21OK?
0:33:24 > 0:33:25Come on. Come on, Noah!
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Dynamite stuff, eh?
0:33:35 > 0:33:39A new spin on blue-sky thinking, I'll say that.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43You certainly kept a lid on it.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47I needed time to road-test it before going public.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50And this outsource company?
0:33:50 > 0:33:53New outfit. About to check them out.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59The water is already lapping round the PM's ankles, Marcus.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01His personal rating's flatlining.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04One last push and the party will make him walk the plank.
0:34:06 > 0:34:11You'll have to take the Home office with you, and Health and DWP.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Well, that's the beauty of it.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16Everyone's going on about how the government is too departmentalized,
0:34:16 > 0:34:18stuck in their own silos.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21This is a narrative for a whole Government.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25It's the ultimate holistic test of joined-up policy.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29What better entry card to Number 10 than a bold, innovative idea
0:34:29 > 0:34:32like this one to remind them what courageous leadership is all about?
0:34:38 > 0:34:40Are you not coming to the funding debate?
0:34:40 > 0:34:43No time for that crap today. Too much on.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50CHEERING
0:34:51 > 0:34:55Order! Order! Mr Aiden Hoynes.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Mr Speaker,
0:35:01 > 0:35:05party funding is not just a financial issue,
0:35:05 > 0:35:06but a moral one.
0:35:06 > 0:35:07MURMURING
0:35:07 > 0:35:10Given the recent allegations against me,
0:35:10 > 0:35:14some might think my contribution to this debate...
0:35:14 > 0:35:15self-serving.
0:35:15 > 0:35:17MURMURING
0:35:17 > 0:35:21In fact, my Right Honourable friend the Prime Minister was counting on that
0:35:21 > 0:35:22when he asked for my support.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26I'm afraid I couldn't oblige him.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32I'm not prepared to sacrifice my principles for self-preservation.
0:35:32 > 0:35:33Why should you?
0:35:35 > 0:35:38But it prompted me to wonder -
0:35:38 > 0:35:42how many of us in this house have prostituted our principles
0:35:42 > 0:35:44for power and self-interest?
0:35:44 > 0:35:46LOUD CLAMOURING
0:35:46 > 0:35:50How many times have we flouted and ignored
0:35:50 > 0:35:53our own ministerial code on ethical standards when it suits us?
0:35:56 > 0:35:58I mean, where to start, Mr Speaker?
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Cash for honours.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Cash for questions.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Cash for influence.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09Dodgy dossiers. Dodgy finances.
0:36:11 > 0:36:16Toxic pacts with the press and the big daddy of them all -
0:36:16 > 0:36:17the expenses scandal.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20- MPS:- Yes! Hear, hear!
0:36:20 > 0:36:23Those are just the headliners.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27Is it any wonder the public is not just disengaged by politicians,
0:36:27 > 0:36:29but DISGUSTED by us?
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Contemptuous of us?
0:36:34 > 0:36:37They see laws passed by MPs without proper scrutiny,
0:36:37 > 0:36:40whipped into submission to toe the party line.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43They see a political system relying on commercial
0:36:43 > 0:36:46and partisan interests for its funding.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50A system corrupted by lobbying and cronyism,
0:36:50 > 0:36:54which has tainted the integrity of all of us in this chamber.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57If you lie down with dogs, you get fleas, Mr Speaker,
0:36:57 > 0:36:59and we are infested with them!
0:36:59 > 0:37:01THE HOUSE CLAMOURS
0:37:01 > 0:37:06- Order!- And what are fleas but parasites by another name?
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Perhaps it's time to remind ourselves of the meaning
0:37:09 > 0:37:12of the Greek word "ethics".
0:37:12 > 0:37:13Bruce Babbish.
0:37:13 > 0:37:18We cannot let the issue of reforming our party funding system
0:37:18 > 0:37:21join the litany of our other broken promises.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26We said we would get rid of Punch & Judy politics in parliament.
0:37:26 > 0:37:32We haven't. We said we would rid parliament of sleaze. We didn't.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36We said we would be open and transparent in our dealings.
0:37:36 > 0:37:37We're not.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41If the promises we make mean nothing,
0:37:41 > 0:37:43if the rights of citizens
0:37:43 > 0:37:45are trampled on by a government to suit its own ends,
0:37:45 > 0:37:48and if those they've elected do not hold the government to account,
0:37:48 > 0:37:53the people will do it themselves... LOUD CLAMOURING
0:37:53 > 0:37:56..if not by taking to the streets, by shunning the ballot box.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02It isn't just us who will pay the price for that...
0:38:04 > 0:38:06..but democracy itself.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09Hear! Hear! Hear!
0:38:19 > 0:38:22I have to say, I'm beginning to feel redundant.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24You patently don't need me to write your speeches any more.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26TEXT ALERT
0:38:29 > 0:38:30That's another fan?
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Mmmm, Sean Bartlett, no less.
0:38:32 > 0:38:34Blimey, he doesn't dish out praise lightly.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38That's most of the Front Bench you've corralled now.
0:38:38 > 0:38:39Not to mention the home front.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43So absurdly proud...
0:38:43 > 0:38:44Ditto.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48'Aiden Hoynes has garnered praise from an increasing number
0:38:48 > 0:38:50'of prominent and back bench cross-party MPs after
0:38:50 > 0:38:54'his dramatic speech during the Party Funding debate in the Commons today.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57'The speech not only resonated strongly with MPs,
0:38:57 > 0:38:59'but has prompted many political commentators to wonder
0:38:59 > 0:39:02'if this provocative tirade against what Hoynes described as
0:39:02 > 0:39:05'"the litany of broken promises" could be the beginning...'
0:39:05 > 0:39:06PHONE RINGS
0:39:06 > 0:39:10'..of an historic movement to renew confidence in the parliamentary system.'
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Hello?
0:39:16 > 0:39:18I hope you're sitting comfortably.
0:39:22 > 0:39:24PHONE RINGS
0:39:26 > 0:39:28- 'Can you talk?'- Go for it.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29They're running it tomorrow,
0:39:29 > 0:39:33to ride on the back of your speech in the House.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35The footage is on their website now.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42'I need to bring other departments along with me on it.
0:39:42 > 0:39:46'Not least Freya Gardner at Work And Pensions - we're nowhere without her.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50'And as a new start-up company, I'd be taking quite a risk on you.'
0:39:50 > 0:39:54'The bigger the risk, the bigger the pay-off, as they say.'
0:39:54 > 0:39:56'I assume we're talking about the same thing?'
0:39:56 > 0:39:59'We're not talking about bank rolling the decor
0:39:59 > 0:40:02'in your private office, Minister.'
0:40:02 > 0:40:06'We'd be looking at showing our appreciation in a more tangible way.'
0:40:09 > 0:40:13'I sense this is the start of a most fruitful relationship.'
0:40:13 > 0:40:17The utter mind-blowing avarice of it!
0:40:17 > 0:40:19It's his fatal flaw. Always was.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23PHONE RINGS
0:40:25 > 0:40:26Hello?
0:40:31 > 0:40:34'Resignation today of the Business Secretary, Bruce Babbish.
0:40:34 > 0:40:38'After being secretly filmed by two undercover reporters posing...'
0:40:38 > 0:40:42- PHONE RINGS - '..as outsource company executives where he allegedly accepted
0:40:42 > 0:40:46'a bribe in return for granting them a major government contract.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49'In other news, the national...'
0:40:51 > 0:40:53PHONE RINGS
0:41:03 > 0:41:06PRESS AND MEDIA CLAMOUR
0:41:09 > 0:41:11'Let me say this.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14'I had no knowledge whatsoever of any Government contract
0:41:14 > 0:41:16'involving immigrants looking after the elderly.'
0:41:16 > 0:41:18PHONE RINGS
0:41:18 > 0:41:20'I was never approached by the Business Secretary at any time,
0:41:20 > 0:41:22'either formally or informally.
0:41:22 > 0:41:24'Had he made such an approach, I would never have countenanced
0:41:24 > 0:41:28'supporting such a venture, much less have agreed to
0:41:28 > 0:41:30'action it. That's it, thank you.'
0:42:24 > 0:42:26Well, just to change the whole system...
0:42:28 > 0:42:32Well, how very cosy.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33Post mortem, is it?
0:42:33 > 0:42:37I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?
0:42:37 > 0:42:40I mean, full bloody marks for ingenuity, mate.
0:42:40 > 0:42:44It was up there in the stratosphere. What was it again?
0:42:44 > 0:42:48"Political fortunes are made on bold ideas?"
0:42:50 > 0:42:52Oh, and just so you know - clean sweep.
0:42:52 > 0:42:55Next stop, criminal charges and deselection! Bonus, eh?
0:42:55 > 0:42:57This is unwise, Bruce.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02There she is! Come join us!
0:43:02 > 0:43:04The Golden Couple, ladies and gents!
0:43:04 > 0:43:09- Bruce, that's enough!- So tell me. Was it his idea, or yours?
0:43:09 > 0:43:11His Damascus conversion?
0:43:11 > 0:43:14The...the...the "big idea" he spun me?
0:43:14 > 0:43:18All that pillow talk planning it, perfecting it to reel me in.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21- God, what a turn-on that must have been, eh?- OK, I said, enough now.
0:43:21 > 0:43:24- I'll just bet it made you wet, just thinking about it, eh? - Hey, hey, hey, hey!
0:43:24 > 0:43:26OK, OK!
0:43:26 > 0:43:28Aargghh!
0:43:29 > 0:43:30Get off!
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Get him out!
0:43:33 > 0:43:35- Get off me!- Come on! - As you were, show's over.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45Well, over the years I've seen some pretty unseemly displays
0:43:45 > 0:43:49in this place, but I have to say that takes pole position.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08# Get out, quack, quack, get out Quack, quack, get out of town... #
0:45:23 > 0:45:24'In your office.'
0:45:40 > 0:45:41It wasn't enough he fucked me over,
0:45:41 > 0:45:44I was supposed to stand by while he fucked my wife too?
0:45:44 > 0:45:45I don't think so.
0:45:48 > 0:45:49What was it? Proximity?
0:45:51 > 0:45:52Lust?
0:45:54 > 0:45:56A quick shag waiting for the division bell?
0:45:58 > 0:46:00I thought as much.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03I'm not going to dignify this with a response.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06Do you remember how I used to joke what a crap liar you were? I stand corrected.
0:46:06 > 0:46:10You have got it mastered on an industrial scale!
0:46:10 > 0:46:13I mean, where to start? Well, what about the last one -
0:46:13 > 0:46:15the other night with your constituents?
0:46:15 > 0:46:18In his apartment the whole damn evening!
0:46:18 > 0:46:19We were working!
0:46:19 > 0:46:20So why did you lie?
0:46:20 > 0:46:24To avoid this exact conversation that we are having now!
0:46:26 > 0:46:30It was only ever in your head, Aiden.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33All of it! Dress it up how you like.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36I am not the reason that you did this, I am just the excuse.
0:46:36 > 0:46:41Well, I'm sorry, turning the other cheek didn't do it for me, so...
0:46:41 > 0:46:45So what was I, then? Collateral damage?
0:46:45 > 0:46:47You could've taken me down with him!
0:46:53 > 0:46:54Oh, God.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57Oh, dear God.
0:46:58 > 0:46:59That's it.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03That's what you wanted, isn't it?
0:47:09 > 0:47:13There's only ever been room for you at the top table.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21Didn't I pay my dues all those years?
0:47:23 > 0:47:24Supporting you, as your cheer leader.
0:47:24 > 0:47:27What about the one time I counted on it, Freya?
0:47:27 > 0:47:30When the world and his wife was watching in Westminster?
0:47:30 > 0:47:33How hard would it have been? One little word?
0:47:33 > 0:47:35"Do you support your husband?"
0:47:35 > 0:47:36And so I had to be punished.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47All your fine words yesterday in the House about ethics.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50Oh, everyone says one thing in the House and does another,
0:47:50 > 0:47:52that's the rules of engagement.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Well, that's your rules, not mine.
0:48:01 > 0:48:04I just wanted things to go back to how they were.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12When we were happy.
0:48:17 > 0:48:18Is this it for us?
0:48:21 > 0:48:23Is that what we're looking at here?
0:48:23 > 0:48:24Love without respect.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29Is that even possible?
0:48:29 > 0:48:32You don't just...you don't just stop loving someone, Freya.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35It doesn't work like that.
0:48:35 > 0:48:36I can give it my best shot.
0:49:18 > 0:49:23No good comes of listening at keyholes, as you used to say.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Yes.
0:49:27 > 0:49:28He had to be stopped.
0:49:28 > 0:49:33If anyone had told me you were capable of such duplicity,
0:49:33 > 0:49:35I'd have told them they were a damn liar.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38How was it up there on the moral high ground all those years
0:49:38 > 0:49:40in the glass house of academia?
0:49:40 > 0:49:42You've never had to get your hands dirty.
0:49:42 > 0:49:47You have never had to sully yourself shovelling the shit on the front line.
0:49:47 > 0:49:48You had me to do that for you!
0:49:48 > 0:49:53I cannot, I WILL not, listen any more to your self-justifying crap!
0:49:56 > 0:50:00How is it you have a son who's totally incapable of deception?
0:50:00 > 0:50:02I have one...
0:50:02 > 0:50:04for whom it's second bloody nature!
0:50:46 > 0:50:47HE SIGHS
0:50:52 > 0:50:54HE GASPS
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Go and tell Daddy you're ready for school. He's in the shed.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05Ah! Mummy!
0:52:08 > 0:52:09Stay inside.
0:52:12 > 0:52:14- Go inside.- Dad!
0:52:14 > 0:52:16- Go in sweetie!- Dad? Dad?
0:52:40 > 0:52:42Thanks for coming.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45Good to see you, thank you.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49Thanks for coming, Kenny, really great to see you.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52Bye. Good to see you. Thank you.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44I'll take the kids away somewhere at half term.
0:53:47 > 0:53:49You can move out then.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18CLAMOURING
0:55:18 > 0:55:20'If a week is a long time in politics,
0:55:20 > 0:55:23'six months is positively seismic.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26'First, the resignation of former Prime Minister Duncan Craig...'
0:55:26 > 0:55:28'After the Bruce Babbish sleaze scandal, then the surprise
0:55:28 > 0:55:32'leadership victory which led to that convincing election victory...'
0:55:32 > 0:55:36'Here they are, arriving together to take up the reins of power - one as
0:55:36 > 0:55:40'Prime Minister, the other as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary.'
0:55:40 > 0:55:42'There have been rumours of a marital split,
0:55:42 > 0:55:44'that it's now just a marriage of political convenience,
0:55:44 > 0:55:47'but there's little sign of that today as they prove to the party
0:55:47 > 0:55:51'and the country that they are indeed the Golden Couple of politics.'
0:55:51 > 0:55:53Thank you.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41Are you ready for us, Prime Minister?
0:56:47 > 0:56:49Yes, thank you, Marcus.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58Welcome back.
0:57:03 > 0:57:04Thank you.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Good morning, everyone.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17Let's begin, shall we?
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