Jim Hacker - Political Affiliation

Political Affiliation

Hacker's political party is never explicitly stated, which was a deliberate ploy by the series' creators to prevent the show from having a partisan affiliation. In the opening scene of the pilot episode the victorious Hacker's party rosette is white, as opposed to the red and blue ones worn by the other candidates. In The National Education Service, however, Sir Humphrey tells Bernard, "When there is a Labour government, the education authorities tell them that comprehensives abolish the class system and when there's a Tory government we tell them that it's the cheapest way of providing mass education; to Labour we explain that selective education is divisive and to the Tories we explain that it is expensive." He then goes on to tell Hacker neither of these things, implying that Hacker is from neither party. Throughout the show, Hacker's political opinions tend towards reform of administration and are neither left nor right wing. The writers have established that they privately saw Hacker as a centrist 'compassionate' Conservative.