In the first episode, Alan Clark joins the Department of Employment, parties with the Coven, suffers under the tyranny of the civil service and scandalises the House in a late night session.

A new era is born.

He flaunts his philandering, dismisses African nations as "Bongo Bongo Land," writes of "smelly little Belgians," dotes on Margaret Thatcher and has a dog named Eva Braun. The Right Honorable Alan ...