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The Thick of It creator reveals scene which cupboard ministers say occurred in actual life

By Editorial Board Published May 20, 2025 3 Min Read
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The Thick of It creator reveals scene which cupboard ministers say occurred in actual life

The creator of the hit political satire The Thick of It has revealed which scene within the collection cupboard ministers have confessed to experiencing in actual life.

One episode specifically that was near the bone entails Malcolm Tucker, the fictional mouthy communications director of Quantity 10, telling a cupboard minister the coverage he is because of announce to the media is being cancelled as a result of it’s too costly – and he must give you one other one on the spot.

Mr Iannucci mentioned: “Sometimes we would come up with stories that were like, we had to invent them, you know, and we thought, let’s push it as stupidly as we can.

“After which a few weeks later, somebody from Whitehall would say, ‘how did you discover out precisely? We thought we would saved that very quiet’.

“And you know, the opening episode has them in the back of a car trying to come up with a policy. Malcolm’s rung up and said the policy you’ve called the press to hear, you cannot go ahead, It’s too expensive.

“So they have to give you a coverage that sounds nice however will price nothing. And I’ve had varied former cupboard members say to me quietly, ‘I have been at the back of that automobile’.”

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Iannucci speaks to Electoral Dysfunction

The Thick of It aired 20 years in the past this month, when New Labour was in authorities.

It satirised the interior workings of contemporary British authorities, with the deal with the fictional Division of Social Affairs and Citizenship.

Peter Capaldi ss Malcom Tucker in 'The Thick Of It.
Pic: BBC

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Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It.
Pic: BBC

Harriet Harman, one of many few senior feminine figures on the time and now a peer and co-host of Electoral Dysfunction, requested Mr Iannucci if anybody impressed the character Nicola Murray, who was the main focus of collection three.

“I’m asking for a friend, because basically it’s like she was so ineffective, but she was so hard working and a nice person. Yes, but she was utterly destroyed by Number 10 and her ministerial colleagues putting the boot in.

“I simply puzzled if she was primarily based on anybody specifically?”.

Mr Iannucci said everyone in The Thick Of It was “primarily based both on a composite of various issues we have heard in numerous individuals or on a sort of guesstimate of what this particular person is perhaps”.

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