Yes Minister training manual for MPs says Nick Herbert

15 January 2013 Last updated at 09:02 ET Help

The TV programme Yes Prime Minister is "an essential training manual" for politicians in high office, a former Conservative policing minister, has said.

Nick Herbert was asked if the TV programme - being revised with a new cast on the Gold TV channel from Tuesday evening - was a comedy or a real-life documentary.

He said it was "rooted in a real truth" as he debated relations between MPs and civil servants with broadcaster and Labour peer Joan Bakewell.

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