Yes, Prime Minister: Re-elected Page #2
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the relationship between the two.
Oh, absolutely.
When I was brought up...
I mean, you described
Yes, Minister as a...comedy.
We were taught it as
a training video.
You know, this was
how you managed your ministers.
I mean, I've been in episodes
of Yes, Minister.
You know, when I was at Trade
and Industry, and Tony appointed me
and said, "Oh, incidentally,
we've changed the name of it -
"it's now the Department
of Productivity, Energy..."
"..Industry and Science."
PEnIS.
I said, "I'm the Secretary
of State for PEnIS!"
And...and this was on a Sunday.
On the Wednesday,
I went to see Tony in Number Ten,
and he said, "Are you OK, Alan?
"You know, all this...
"pretty straight
nuclear policy...?"
And I said, "I don't like being
in the Department of PEnIS."
And he said, "Whose idea was that?"
And he looked round,
and, "Oh, not mine!"
It was his Press Secretary!
It was certainly was not!
Alistair had gone by then!
So we had to change,
so DTI had come down,
Victoria Street, I can remember it.
And they were just about to put
PEnIS up, and fortunately
I managed to persuade the Prime
Minister we'd go back to being DTI.
I mean it's an episode
of Yes, Minister.
They couldn't have got,
they couldn't have invented that,
could they?
No!
When Jim Hacker left our screens
in 1988, Jonathan Lynn hotfooted it
to Hollywood to become
an award-winning film director.
Antony Jay swapped the city
for the country to continue writing.
back to our screens.
It's as good a time as any
to revive Yes, Prime Minister.
Nothing has changed,
except cosmetically,
since it was first on in 1980.
Our very limited ambition
about what
happens in Whitehall.
vein of humour and public interest.
And it was extraordinarily
fortunate, but the result of it
is that...there's never
a shortage of things to write about.
Collapse of conference,
collapse of backbench support,
collapse of coalition, collapse
of cabinet, collapse of my career!
This is the biggest disaster
since Dunkirk!
It is very much
a continuation of the original.
And we've got two absolutely
marvellous characters,
er, playing Jim and Humphrey,
which I think will be
an eye-opener to people,
not that they're better than Paul
and Nigel, but they're different,
but they're really very,
very well observed and very funny.
'It's obviously
extraordinarily gratifying
'to have created characters
'that seem to have become
part of the vocabulary.
'It didn't occur to us, I think,
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