The Thick of It

Peter Mannion, the Secretary of State for Social Affairs is told to launch his Coalition partner Fergus's new "Networked Nation" policy at a school. Problem is, Peter doesn't even know how to right-click a mouse and would rather be celebrating his wedding anniversary. Fergus gets left in charge of drawing up a list of staff redundancies.

Nicola Murray struggles to break in her new policy advisor, though of course she is already stressed by seeing Dan Miller get friendly with Malcolm Tucker.

Stewart Pearson is running "Thought Camp" at a remote hotel, as the perfect way to re-engage the party. Peter Mannion can definitely think of better ways of spending the Easter weekend. Meanwhile, Phil is surprised to find the ministerial offices less than deserted. Then all political hell is let loose when an unexpected and tragic news story breaks.

With opposition leader Nicola on a long train journey to attend the party's Here 2 Hear event in Bradford, Malcolm Tucker is free to launch his latest plot.

Both government and opposition try to spin their way to the moral high ground following the key worker housing scandal. Some are even calling for an inquiry.

Lord Goolding's inquiry into the key worker housing scandal begins. The truth will finally come out. Unless, of course, anyone has any sudden lapses of memory.

The Home Office have cut police numbers. At Malcolm's suggestion, Dan Miller gets sent on a fact-finding mission to the local cop-shop.