Prime Minister Jim Hacker is still guided by his Machiavellian mentor, Sir Humphrey Appleby, in Series Two of this award-winning comedy. When Jim decides to implement a new plan to reduce unemployment in the North, Sir Humphrey decides that desperate cases call for desperate measures. Meanwhile, if the Prime Minister gives false information to Parliament, should the Cabinet Secretary support him, or should he tell all? As Sir Humphrey ponders the ethics, he finds that he too has something to hide...