Vic Gould

Vic Gould turns up on the fringes of Jim Hacker's Whitehall world, one of the many officials and functionaries whose quiet competence or obstruction shapes the Minister's day. He speaks plainly, keeps his own counsel, and seems entirely unbothered by the political theatre swirling around him.

Edward Jewesbury brings a dry, unshowy authority to the part, the kind of performance that makes a small role feel load-bearing. In a show built on verbal fencing between grand egos, his stillness and understatement land as their own quiet joke, a reminder that Whitehall runs on people nobody notices.