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..."

which was capital E, small N

"..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,

and it was blank outside 1

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.

Now GOLD has persuaded them

to bring Yes, Prime Minister

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

was to write six funny shows

about what

happens in Whitehall.

But we stumbled across a rich

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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