Lord Billsborough and Michael Samuels, MP
Teddy Billsborough is Chairman of the Conservative Party. He is a canny political operator but past his prime. His young protégé Michael Samuels is Environment Secretary and on the 'liberal' wing of the Conservative Party. Billsborough becomes Urquhart's unwitting pawn when Urquhart tells Collingridge, and hints to Mattie and the press, that it is Billsborough who is betraying him (it is in fact Urquhart), whereupon Collingridge sacks him. Samuels is a frontrunner and ultimately Urquhart's chief rival for the Conservative leadership when Collingridge resigns.
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