Aiden and Freya Hoynes are the golden couple of British politics. Aiden resigns from the cabinet in a failed leadership bid thwarted by his best friend Bruce Babbish (Ed Stoppard). In the the cabinet reshuffle, Freya is appointed to cabinet, while Aiden returns to the back benches and a life of political obscurity. Finally out of her husband's shadow, Freya is forced to choose between her own career ambitions or publicly supporting her husband.