Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.
Writer: Trevor Griffiths
Bill Brand
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11 episodes
First episode of a TV series about a young working-class lecturer with an uncompromising commitment to socialism who is elected to Parliament as a Labour MP.
Runtime: 60 minBrand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.
Runtime: 60 minBrand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.
Runtime: 60 minBrand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.
Runtime: 60 minBrand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.
Runtime: 60 minBrand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.
Runtime: 60 minBrand surprises and alarms his colleagues on the standing committee for an anti-terrorism bill by using it as a platform from which to berate the Government.
Runtime: 60 minBrand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.
Runtime: 60 minBrand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.
Runtime: 60 minBrand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.
Runtime: 60 minFinal episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.
Runtime: 60 min