Unlike most collections of scripts from TV comedies, this has been skilfully edited to make it into a highly plausible diary.
'Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction...at its frequent best Yes Prime Minsiter exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times. 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP. 'Yes Prime Minister....is not only a continuing marvel of editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph