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plays the minister as a fundamentally decent man whose principles are real but flexible. Eddington, a committed liberal who had once stood for Parliament as a candidate for the Liberal Party, understood the moral compromises of power from the inside. His Hacker wants to do good—but he also wants to be re-elected, to be respected and to avoid looking foolish. These conflicting desires make him both sympathetic and laughable, often in the same scene.

Success means passing new laws, cutting costs, gaining favorable media coverage, and securing re-election.

The brilliance of Yes Prime Minister (the sequel series) is that it shows the corruption of the idealist. In the first series, Jim Hacker is a victim. By the end of Yes Prime Minister , he is an accomplice. Yes Minister And Yes Prime Minister

Jim Hacker loses every battle, wins the occasional war, and ends up just as corrupt as the system he fought. And yet, we love him. We see ourselves in him. Because the final, unspoken lesson of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is that we are all Jim Hacker. We enter the arena hoping to do good, and we leave it hoping to survive.

"To deny the Minister information; to give him information that is out of date, irrelevant, or inaccurate; to give him so much information that he can't absorb it all; and finally, to give him information that he already has, but to repeat it until he is thoroughly confused." plays the minister as a fundamentally decent man

The series has been lauded for its nonpartisan approach to political satire; it mocks the left and the right with equal vigor, focusing its fire instead on the permanent structures of power that outlast any single administration. It has taught generations of viewers the language of government, the art of the "dodgy dossier," and the importance of never, ever, setting up an inquiry unless you already know the answer.

The series' legacy is extraordinary. It won multiple BAFTAs and was voted sixth in the BBC's "Britain's Best Sitcom" poll. More surprisingly, it became a favorite of the very woman it appeared to satirize: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who reportedly found its portrayal of her own government uncomfortably accurate. When she would lose arguments with her advisors, she would cry, "This is like something out of Yes, Minister !" These conflicting desires make him both sympathetic and

The play, which enjoyed a sold-out run at London's Apollo Theatre, reunites an older, retired Jim Hacker (played by Griff Rhys Jones) with the eternally obstructive Sir Humphrey (Clive Francis). Hacker, now the master of an Oxford college, hopes for a quiet retirement. Instead, he finds himself facing a crisis even Sir Humphrey never anticipated: cancellation by a hostile college committee. As the students and fellows close in, Sir Humphrey, armed with his Latin tags and his passion for procedural paralysis, must once again come to the rescue.