Geoffrey Booza-Pitt, MP
Geoffrey Booza-Pitt (Nickolas Grace) is a lesser member of Urquhart's Cabinet (mentioned at one stage as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) in The Final Cut. He is something of a 'character', cheerfully upper-class with a slightly eccentric sense of humour, notable for wearing colourful waistcoats and bow ties, and a fondness for the fairer sex. Urquhart promotes him to Foreign Secretary: Geoffrey is an Urquhart loyalist and in any case lacks the credibility to be a rival, and his popular image as a cute buffoon (though he is actually clever) humiliates his predecessor, also earning him a reputation as Urquhart's 'glove-puppet' (as Tom Makepeace calls him in his statement of resignation) and the consequent nickname of Sooty by both the Opposition and other Members of the Cabinet and Parliamentary Party.
The Booza-Pitt of the book is similar to the TV version in many respects. However, he is Transport Secretary to start with and later Home Secretary, and has an affair with his Party constituency Chairman's wife. His political career survives under Urquhart's successor, Maxwell Stanbrook.
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