Something goes terribly wrong at a ministerial visit to a factory – only Malcolm can help, but will he?

There's a reshuffle in the offing and the PM's new 'blue skies' advisor is making trouble...

Someone sends an email they shouldn't have, while Hugh lies to a Select Committee...

Nicola Murray MP has only been secretary of state for just over a week, but already there is press speculation on how long she will last. And now someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has completely wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people. Who's going to get the blame, who will have to break the news to Malcolm and how will Nicola get through lunch with the staff of the Guardian without revealing the scale of the latest disaster?

With Nicola Murray and Peter Mannion both on the back foot after the unravelling of the key-worker housing sell-off policy there's inevitably going to be a scramble for the moral high-ground.

The government, opposition and civil service are called before Lord Goolding's inquiry.