Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the antihero of the BBC political satire, "The Thick of It", and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi. He is the Director of Communications for the Labour Party, in both Government and Opposition, acting as the Prime Minister's chief enforcer overseeing cabinet ministers. Tucker was originally a secondary character, with Chris Langham's Hugh Abbot as the protagonist being watched over by Tucker, but after Langham was fired from the series the show directed more attention towards the character of Tucker and his dealings with the inept Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship (DoSaC), originally the Department
Malcolm Tucker that his personal preferable inspiration for the character was notorious Hollywood producers, most notably Harvey Weinstein. In the spin off feature film, "In the Loop" Tucker, Jamie, Sam and Angela Heaney are the only four characters to stay the same from the TV series. In it Tucker has to deal with an incompetent minister who has told the press that war is unforeseeable, causing more strain to the hot and delicate topic. Tucker is sent to be a willing and very active pawn in the efforts of a warmongering United States Assistant Secretary of State towards an intervention in the