The Politician's Husband

- Season 1

(2016)

Government minister Aiden Hoynes launches an attack on the prime minister's immigration policy and makes a leadership bid but is forced to resign after it is thwarted by fellow minister Bruce Babbish. The resignation prompts a cabinet reshuffle in which Aiden's supportive wife Freya,also a politician,is offered the ministry of work and pensions. Aiden urges her to accept so that she can carry on challenging the immigration policy,surrounding her with his own former staff. Freya does indeed accept whilst Aiden becomes a house husband,driving their autistic son Noah to ...

Drunk and angry that Freya has not done as he wanted and is enjoying her own sense of power, Aiden forces himself on her sexually. Next day he apologizes but still asks her staff to keep him informed on her movements and decisions. He posts a tweet to discredit Babbish and attempts to get onto a select committee to influence government policy, but Babbish makes sure he is not accepted. The Hoynes present as a happy couple to a journalist interviewing them but genuinely unite after a swimming pool scare with Noah. Aiden's father also urges him not to be vindictive. ...

The marriage is put under pressure when Dita tells the newspapers that she had sex with Aiden, and Noah lashes out at school in reaction to the news. Nonetheless Freya puts up a united front with her husband and spurns Babbish's advances when they are working late together. Aiden however is suspicious, and concocts a plan which will make it seem as if both are taking bribes, though only Babbish is tarnished by it and has to resign. Freya is angry that Aiden could have thought so little of her and, having supported him after his father's death, asks him to leave the ...