I've been watching yes minister again and the themes are eeriely familiar. I also found out there was a 2013 relaunch that fell flat. If only they had waited another 6 years!
There was also an Indian spin off sometime in the nineties.. did sort of ok but iirc got called since it ruffled a few feathers here
They took a lot of ideas and turned them up to absurd. One or two turned out to be actually happening like they thought they'd only imagined. Others were grounded on real events.
One of the two writers, Jonathon Lynne I think, went to Oxford or Cambridge, and took part in the debating society. He mentioned something I heard mentioned again recently regarding Boris Johnson and his government cronies university and school days - so perhaps no wonder it seems horribly familiar again. Something roughly along the lines of university debate club being filled with self-important overblown and pompous asses, sure of their right to rule the world, and to be in the right by mere opening of their mouth, endlessly spouting crap and winging it. Yes Minister was born here. :)
A decade or two later all those pompous asses were populating the government and opposition benches, spouting the same crap.