Patrick Woolton, MP
Patrick Woolton (Malcolm Tierney) is a minor character in the first instalment. He serves as Foreign Secretary under Henry Collingridge. In House of Cards, Urquhart describes Woolton as a "'a lout, a lecher, a racist, an anti-Semite, and a bully'", but adds that he is 'more intelligent than he seems'.
Woolton makes two unsuccessful bids for the leadership of the Conservative Party - in the first contest, he loses to Collingridge. In the second, Urquhart anonymously blackmails Woolton into withdrawing by sending him a tape of him having sex with Penny Guy, Roger O'Neill's assistant and mistress. He vows that he will be back, but is absent from the later sequels.
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