Thank you. Can I have the fucking digest, please?
That would be terrific.
All you had to do was ask, please. Yeah, well, all I did do was ask.
Phwoar! It was a joke.
Hello. Hello. Um... Morning, Minister.
Um, I need to have a word with you, Ollie.
Then can you get me Terri on the phone, please? Where is Glenn?
Er, Nicholson hauled him in for one of his chats.
Oh. One of his bright ideas for inflatable churches for rural communities or tattooing immigrants.
Apparently, the PM's wife doesn't like me.
Did you know this?
No. Um...why?
Well, two reasons - cut of my jib and insufficient clicking.
So I'll be a minor footnote in British political history
cos I didn't have an anecdote about Charlotte Church's puppies. We can brainstorm small-talk...
Ollie, realistically, I'm not going to get promotion, not while this Prime Minister's still in power?
Not while he's married to this wife. Mind you, knowing your luck,
he'll leave her, she'll marry his replacement.
I did mention your great quiet carriages thing and he just...
..went, you know. What does that mean? Fuck knows what it means,
but I don't think it means, "Oh, Hugh, you're fantastic.
"Here, become Home Secretary," and even if it did mean that, when he's
in bed tonight with Mrs PM, she'll say, "What do you mean Hugh Abbott as Home Secretary?
"The man is a social spastic and very probably a registered nonce, darling."
Terri on line one, and there's her dad's name.
All right. Dad's name? Hell...hello.
Hello, how are you? 'I'm not great actually, Hugh...'
Yes, goodness me. Please be sure to send my best to...to...
to your dad.
Look, I heard today that the PM's wife doesn't like me.
Did you know about this? 'Yeah, I did know that.'
I know about the lack of click. Was there anything else? 'Hugh, my dad is dying.'
Of course. Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to me Terri, really.
It must be a...you know... Well, obviously, it's a very, very hard time for you and,
it's just ironic that it happens to have coincided with such a very hard time for me.
Because, you know, I thought I was solid with the reshuffle.