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Mr Watson stressed that there was "no secret, and no shame, in a Conservative MP being a loyal ally of his former boss and powerful patron" - but he warned that as a minister he will now have responsibility for policy areas in which Mr Osborne and his new employer have a commercial interest. (BBC News)

Presiding over this little society is the irascible Captain Anderson (Jared Harris), who is positively hostile to Talbot until he learns of the young man's powerful patron, which makes him grudgingly respectful. (BBC)