Government embarrassment, ministerial cock-up, coalition rows, backroom
deals, policy U-turns, spin-doctoring, political back-stabbing, wild media
speculation, and more time spent with one’s family. It can only be the
eagerly-anticipated return of Armando Lannucci’s sharp political satire The
Thick of It. Rebecca Front and Peter Capaldi reprise their BAFTAwinning
roles as Nicola Murray and Malcolm Tucker, now consigned to the opposition
benches, but
still desperate for power. Roger Allam returns as Peter Mannion, the new
Secretary of State for Social Affairs, supported by his team of special advisors
and thwarted by his new coalition partners.
