Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
3.1 / 5
Episode 1
First episode of a TV series about a young working-class lecturer with an uncompromising commitment to socialism who is elected to Parliament as a Labour MP.
Episode 2
Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Episode 3
Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Episode 4
Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Episode 5
Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Episode 6
Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Episode 7
Brand surprises and alarms his colleagues on the standing committee for an anti-terrorism bill by using it as a platform from which to berate the Government.
Episode 8
Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.
Episode 9
Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Episode 10
Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Episode 11
Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.
