Summary
Piers Fletcher Dervish is a main character in The New Statesman, and is played by actor Michael Troughton.
Overview
Piers is Alan's long-suffering colleague at Westminster, with whom he shares an office along with old-school backbencher Sir Stephen Baxter. He is the Conservative MP for the Wiltshire seat of Devizes. He has incredibly low self-esteem, and subsequently becomes the focus of Alan's domineering verbal and physical abuse.