The most junior member of the new Cabinet, Hugh Driftwood is an unlikely candidate for Prime Minister and his arch-rival, ex-spin-doctor Alistair Sloach, has his own eye on that particular post But in the accident-prone Government of Edward Burgins, ministers are dropping like flies, and Hugh does have the energetic support of his ambitious stepmother, media tycoon Vanessa Vanessa's personal agenda includes humiliating rival media mogul Victor Quistling All is going swimmingly until Hugh is sucked into a political sex scandal of potentially disastrous proportions