Director of Communications at DoSAC, former Waitrose PR executive turned senior civil servant
Press Office assistant - Delegates all actual work while taking credit
Departmental colleague - Senior adviser she considers beneath her Civil Service status
Departmental colleague - Junior adviser she finds irritating and unreliable
Number 10 enforcer - Lives in fear of his interventions
Former minister - Managed his numerous PR disasters
Later minister - Introduces her to department, continues crisis management
Coalition minister - Serves under Conservative leadership
Two hundred years ago they wouldn't have let him milk a cow.