Yes Minister, Series 3

The Right Honourable James Hacker MP (Paul Eddington of The Good Life fame) is the newly-appointed Minister of Administrative Affairs, who soon finds many of his ideas for reform openly opposed by the civil servants whose job it is to implement them — in particular by his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne). Their respective battle of wits to gain and maintain the levers of power forms the basis of the series.