Keyword House Of Commons

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.

Urquhart aims to secure his legacy on the international stage, but faces threats both from abroad and closer to home.