背景设定在2010年大选，本剧聚焦英国尼克·克莱格（Nick Clegg）从没落自由党的领导人成为“改变国家命运”的英国现任副首相，与大卫·卡梅伦（David Cameron）及其保守党组成英国战后以来首个联合政府的故事。

Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.