List of fictional Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Fictional stories featuring the political scene in Westminster or Whitehall in the United Kingdom, often feature fictional Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom - invented characters with the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Such characters may be complete inventions, or they may be based on a particular Prime Minister or politician, or on a broad stereotype of party politicians.

Prime Ministers are listed alphabetically by surname. Also provided is information (where relevant and provided) about party affiliations, actors who portrayed the character and character notes.

Named fictional characters

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A

Lord Alloway

• Prime Minister in the Hercule Poirot short story "The Submarine Plans" by Agatha Christie
• Party: unspecified
• Notes: previously Sir Ralph Curtis; succeeds David MacAdam (below)

B

Baldrick

• Played by: Tony Robinson
• Prime Minister in Blackadder: Back & Forth
• Party: unspecified
• Notes: could be classed as a (puppet) dictator

Lord Richard Beaminster

• former Prime Minister in The Duchess of Wrexe by Hugh Walpole
• Notes: served two terms

Lord Bellinger

• Played by: Harry Andrews (Granada adaptation)
• Prime Minister in The Adventure of the Second Stain (a Sherlock Holmes story)
• Party: unspecified

Blocket

• Played by: George A. Cooper
• Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
• Party: Labour
• Notes: A thinly veiled representation of Harold Wilson.

Leonard Braithwaite FRSJ

• Prime Minister (briefly) in When the Kissing Had to Stop by Constantine Fitzgibbon
• Party: Labour and Anti-Nuclear Bomb
• Notes: he dies in office

Lord Brock

• Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington and Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Whig
• Notes: sits in the Commons, not the Lords; based on Lord Palmerston

Terry Brooks

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who: Option Lock by Justin Richards
• Party: unspecified

Sir George Brown, Baronet

• Prime Minister in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: in office for less than a fortnight

Alan B'Stard

• Played by: Rik Mayall
• Prime Minister (briefly) in The New Statesman
• Party: None (previously Conservative (later styles himself Lord Protector)) In 2006 alleged in a trailer to have defected to New Labour

C

Sir John Cabal

• Prime Minister in: Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton
• Notes: Is Prime Minister in 1904, when he oversees the start of the British invasion of Mars.

Sir Mortimer Chris

• Played by: Peter Cook
• Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
• Party: Conservative

Edward Clare

• Prime Minister in Number Ten by Sue Townsend
• Party: Labour
• Notes: parody of Tony Blair

Henry Collingridge

• Prime Minister at the start of House of Cards trilogy
• Party: Conservative

Lord Coodle

• Prime Minister in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Party: unspecified

Phillip Cotton

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who: Option Lock by Justin Richards
• Party: unspecified

D

Alfred Danderson

• Prime Minister in First Lady by Michael Dobbs 2007-2010
• Party: Labour
• Notes: Succeeds Tony Blair, married to Lauren Danderson, loses general election to Conservative Leader Dom Edge.

David (First Name only, no last name given) - played by Hugh Grant.

• Prime Minister in Love Actually, (2003 movie)
• Party: Probably Conservative (a portrait of Thatcher hangs in his study, he insults Cherie Blair, describes the Blair Ministry as having "bad policies" and is patriotic). More assertive towards the US then any actual British PM of either party; has an open confrontation with the arrogant and overbearing President of United States after the visiting President attempts to seduce the PM's secretary, with whom David himself is in love.

Mark D'Arby

• Prime Minister in The Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs (2012–2014)
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: Succeeds John Eaton after the hostage crisis in the House of Lords. Calls a snap election and wins. Is PM when the Chinese plan to cripple the US, UK and Russia with cyber war
• Holds a summit at Castle Lorne in Scotland with US President Blythe Harrison Edwards and Russian President Sergei Shunin
• Revealed in the epilogue, he ordered the USS Reuben James, a US vessel to be navigated into Iran's coast and the tampering of President Edwards' mother's hospital reports resulting in her death in order to bring President Edwards on board to attack the Chinese with himself and Shunin.
• Implied to have resigned over his orders in the epilogue

Tom Davis

• Prime Minister in The Thick of It,
• Party: Presumably New Labour
• Notes: A parallel of Gordon Brown, Tom Davis ascended to the Premiership following the resignation of the show's first, unnamed and unseen Prime Minister, this one a parallel of Tony Blair. Before that Tom was referred to in the show as the PM's Number 2, and he and his faction as "the Nutters".

Mr Daubeny or Daubney

• Prime Minister in Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: generally supposed to represent Benjamin Disraeli

Lord de Terrier

• Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage and Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: generally supposed to represent Lord Derby

Rupert Devereaux

• Prime Minister in The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
• Party: unspecified

Sir Thomas Doodle

• Prime Minister in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Party: unspecified
• Notes: later Lord Doodle

Lord Drummond

• Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Conservative

Morag Duff

• Prime Minister in the works of Kim Newman
• Party: Labour Party
• Notes: Became Prime Minister (in at least one universe) after John Major's defeat in the 1992 General Election.

E

John Eaton

• Prime Minister in The Lord's Day (2009–2012)
• Party: Conservative
• Is PM when terrorists take over the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament. Whilst Eaton, the Queen, the Cabinet, dignitaries and the Royal Family are held hostage in the House of Lords, Home Secretary Tricia Willcocks is left in charge.
• Eaton resigns after the crisis, mostly after the execution of Education Secretary Marjie Antrobus live on national TV by the terrorists.
• Is succeeded by Mark D'Arby.

Dominic "Dom" Edge

• Prime Minister in First Lady
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: Married to Ginny Edge, had an affair with one of his aides, won heated leadership contest, former Conservative Party Chairman.

F

Sir Edward Ferrier

• Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Augean Stables" by Agatha Christie
• Party: People's Party (fictional)
• Notes: succeeded his father-in-law John Hammett (below) as Prime Minister

G

Mr Geraldine

• mentioned as a former Prime Minister in The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: subsequently Leader of the Opposition

Raymond Gould

• Prime Minister in: First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, in the British edition of the book and the Granada Television adaptation.
• Party: Labour
• Notes: rival Simon Kerslake becomes Prime Minister in the United States edition of the book

Maureen Graty

• Played by: Pamela Salem
• Prime Minister in The West Wing (television series)
• Party: unspecified, presumably either Labour or Conservative

Brian Green

• Played by Nicholas Farrell
• Prime Minister in Torchwood series three: Children of Earth^[1]
• Party: unknown

Joseph Green (MP for Hartley Dale, Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionery)

• Played by: David Verrey
• Acting Prime Minister in: Doctor Who: "World War Three"
• Real name: Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen
• Party: Unspecified (possibly Labour due to the timeline).

Mr Gresham

• Prime Minister in Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Liberal
• Notes: generally supposed to represent William Ewart Gladstone

H

Jim Hacker

• Played by: Paul Eddington
• Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television)
• Party: unspecified

Jeffrey Hale

• Prime Minister in: King Ralph
• Played by: James Villiers

James Halstead

• Prime Minister in: A Planet for the President by Alistair Beaton

John Hammett

• Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Augean Stables" by Agatha Christie
• Party: the People's Party (fictional)
• Notes: afterwards raised to the House of Lords as Lord Cornworthy

John Hatcher

• Prime Minister in: Doomsday
• Played by: Alexander Siddig
• Prime Minister of a post-apocalyptic Britain in the 2030s; commits suicide after being infected by a lethal plague

Sir Timothy Hobson

• Prime Minister in: The Guardians (television)
• Played by Cyril Luckham
• Party: Unspecified but right-wing
• Notes: Initially a puppet Prime Minister for a military dictatorship, he struggles to gain some real authority.

Mr Hunberly

• Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie

Tom Hutchinson

• Played by: Ronald Fraser
• Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: A thinly veiled representation of Edward Heath.

J

Sir James Jaspers

• Prime Minister in: the Marvel Universe comic-book continuity
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: swept to power on an anti-superhero platform, Jaspers himself had the ability to alter reality - at the cost of his own sanity

Harriet Jones (MP for Flydale North)

• Played by Penelope Wilton
• Prime Minister in Doctor Who: "The Christmas Invasion"
• Party: Unspecified, implied to be Labour
• Notes: Was also mentioned as President of Great Britain in the parallel earth of "Doomsday".

Iorwerth Jones

• Prime Minister in Nevil Shute's novel In the Wet
• Party: Unspecified, implied to be Labour. The character is possibly inspired by the Labour Government of 1945-51.
• Notes: Jones is portrayed as a pro-republican politician who forces the Royal Family into exile in Canada.

K

Yorrick Kaine

• Prime Minister in Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
• Party: Whig
• Notes: Attempts to establish self as dictator; escapee from a bad romance novel

L

Adam Lang

• Prime Minister in: The Ghost by Robert Harris
• Party: Labour
• Notes: Loosely based on Tony Blair

Charles Lenton

• Prime Minister in: Corridors of Power by C. P. Snow
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: succeeds in the wake of the Suez Crisis

Charlie Lynton

• Prime Minister in the novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
• Party: British Union of Fascists
• Notes: clearly inspired by Tony Blair (whose full name is Anthony Charles Lynton Blair). This is acknowledged by the mention of his upper-class English accent "that belied his birth in Edinburgh".

Arthur Lytton

• Played by: Ronald Adam
• Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
• Party: Unknown

M

David MacAdam

• Played by Henry Moxton (Granada adaptation)
• Prime Minister in the Hercule Poirot short stories "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" and "The Submarine Plans" by Agatha Christie
• Party: probably a coalition government
• Notes: in office during the First World War and after; succeeded by Lord Alloway (above)

William Mildmay

• Prime Minister in Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Whig
• Taken to be based on Lord John Russell

Joshua Monk

• Played by Bryan Pringle (The Pallisers, BBC Television)
• Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Liberal

Gloria Munday

• Prime Minister in Dan Dare graphic novel (1990) by Grant Morrison
• Party: Conservative Party (resemblance to white-haired Margaret Thatcher.)

O

The Duke of Omnium (Plantagenet Palliser)

• Played by Philip Latham (The Pallisers, BBC Television)
• Prime Minister in: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volumes One and Two by Alan Moore
• Party: Liberal, Coalition

Gerald O'Brien

• Prime Minister in: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore
• Character originally from 1984 by George Orwell
• Party: Ingsoc
• Notes: Came into power in 1952 following the death of Prime Minister General Sir Harold Wharton, aka "Big Brother", and remained in power until 1958 (presumably his death) when democracy was restored to Britain.

Walter Outrage, OM

• Prime Minister in: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
• Party: unspecified
• Notes: also mentioned in passing in Black Mischief

P

Harry Perkins (Harold Clement Perkins)

• Played by: Ray McAnally
• Prime Minister in: A Very British Coup (television and novel)
• Party: Labour

Michael Phillips

• Played by: Robert Bathurst
• Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)
• Party: unspecified

Kevin Pork (a.k.a. Superman)

• Played by: Peter Jones
• Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
• Party: Labour.

Rosamund 'Ros' Jane Pritchard

• Played by: Jane Horrocks
• Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
• Party: The fictional Purple Alliance

R

Michael Rimmer

• Played by: Peter Cook
• Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: Later declared President of Great Britain

Lord Ruthven

• Prime Minister in: Anno Dracula and sequels by Kim Newman
• Party: Conservative

S

Harold Saxon (aka The Master)

• Played by: John Simm
• Prime Minister in Doctor Who: "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords"
• Party: unspecified, formed of defectors from other parties. Saxon had previously been a Minister with the Ministry of Defence.

Edward Shaw

• played by John Shrapnel
• Prime Minister in: The Palace
• Party: Labour
• Note: He is MP for Bromsgrove.

David Somerset

• Prime Minister in: Alternities by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• Notes: Wins the premiership in 1977.
• Party: Labour

Dr. Davenport Spry

• Prime Minister in: Scarlet Traces: The Great Game by Ian Edginton
• Notes: Is Prime Minister in the 1940s, when he oversees the end of the British invasion of Mars. Was the former spymaster of Sir John Cabal's government.

Peter St. John

• Prime Minister in: Zenith comic strip in 2000 AD
• Party: Conservative (succeeded Margaret Thatcher)
• Note: he assassinated former prime minister Edward Heath at Thatcher's request

Michael Stevens

• Played by: Anthony Head
• Prime Minister in: Little Britain (television)
• Party: unspecified, presumably Labour as he and his cabinet bear red rosettes on Election Night. Based loosely on Tony Blair.

Adam Susan

• Played by: John Hurt
• Prime Minister in: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• Party: Norsefire
• Notes: Later is given the new position of High Chancellor. In the original graphic novel he holds the position of "Leader". For the film, his last name was changed to "Sutler"; it has been confirmed by the screenwriters that they created the name by combining Susan and Hitler, as a reference to Adolf Hitler.

T

Sir Derrick Trant

• Prime Minister in: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
• Party: Labour

U

Francis Urquhart

• Played by: Ian Richardson
• Prime Minister in: House of Cards trilogy
• Party: Conservative

W

Mr Waldemar

• Prime Minister in: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
• Party: Liberal
• Notes: at the head of a National Government

Thomas Waring

• Prime Minister in: Avalon by Stephen R. Lawhead
• Party: British Republic Party

General Sir Harold Wharton

• Prime Minister in: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore
• Character originally from the Billy Bunter stories of Charles Hamilton
• Party: Labour, then Ingsoc
• Notes: An MI5 agent entered into the Labour Party, he was elected Prime Minister in the postwar elections after World War II and soon established the totalitarian Airstrip One government, gaining the popular nickname "Big Brother". He dies in 1952 and is replaced by Gerald O'Brien.

Sidney Wilton

• Prime Minister in: Endymion by the Earl of Beaconsfield
• Party: Liberal

Y

Michael Year

• Prime Minister in: UNIT audio dramas The Longest Night and Snakehead.
• Party:Conservative

Real people

Sometimes, a fictional story will indicate a near future or alternate universe setting by portraying a real person as an alternate Prime Minister.

Tony Benn

• Prime Minister in Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
• Party: unspecified, either leftist Labour Party or Communist

Rab Butler

• Prime Minister in Random Quest by John Wyndham
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: PM at 1954, in an Alternate History where World War II did not happen.

Lord Byron

• Prime Minister in The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• Party: Industrial Radical Party, or the "Rads", developed from the Radicals.

Sebastian Coe

• Prime Minister in Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 by Andy Hamilton
• Party: "A rainbow coalition of the Conservatives, the Pensioners' Power Party, the British National Party and the Keep Sunday Special Party."

Sebastian Coe

• Prime Minister in The Brittas Empire episode set in 2019
• Party: Conservatives

Harriet Harman

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter politics and she subsequently is the first female Prime Minister
• Follows Chris Patten

Roy Hattersley

Is Prime Minister in the Jeffrey Archer novel The Prodigal Daughter as mentioned by the main character Florentyna Kane.

Denis Healey

• Prime Minister in 1987 graphic novel Watchmen as well as Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won"
• Party: Presumably Labour

Iain Macleod

• In Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel, Macleod is mentioned as having served as Prime Minister from 1969 until 1977.
• Authorizes the secret deployment of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Britain.
• Party: Conservative

Oswald Mosley

• Prime Minister in various "Nazis win World War II" stories, e.g., the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Exodus and Harry Turtledove's novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies.
• Party: British Union of Fascists

John Pardoe

• Played by: himself
• Prime Minister in Black Cinderella Two Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
• Party: Liberal

Chris Patten

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter politics
• Follows Peter Walker and is succeeded by Harriet Harman

Shirley Williams

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell
• Party: unspecified, presumably Labour or Social Democrat
• Presumably intended to be the female Prime Minister from Terror of the Zygons (see unnamed below)

John Prescott

• Prime Minister in My Hero episode scene set 10 years in future (2015)
• Party: presumably Labour

Peter Walker

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter politics
• Follows Denis Healey and is succeeded by Chris Patten

Unnamed

Due to the absence of names, this list is ordered by available information.

First name "Jeremy"

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who : "The Green Death"
• Party: unspecified, probably intended as a reference to the Liberal Jeremy Thorpe implying that story was set in near future (later stories contradict this)

Black male "Leroy"

• Prime Minister in Strontium Dog stories in 2000 AD comic.
• Party: unspecified

White Female

• Played by: Faith Brook
• Prime Minister in:North Sea Hijack (film, 1979)
• Party: unspecified but bears a strong resemblance to Margaret Thatcher

Female

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who : "Terror of the Zygons"
• Party: unspecified, although the serial's director Douglas Camfield intended it as a reference to the then-prominent Labour MP Shirley Williams, implying that story was set in the near future (later stories contradict this). The scenes in question were record shortly after Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to lead a major UK political party.

Black male

• Played by: Don Warrington
• President of Great Britain in Doctor Who : "Rise of the Cybermen"
• Party: unspecified
• Notes: The title, 'President of Great Britain' was the parallel earth's version of the British Prime Minister.

White Male

• Played by: Michael Gambon
• Prime Minister in: Ali G Indahouse (film, 2002)
• Party: Government Party (very similar to Labour)

White Male

• Played by: Robbie Coltrane
• Prime Minister in Stormbreaker
• Party: unspecified

White Male

• Played by: Kevin McNally
• Prime Minister in: Johnny English (film, 2003)
• Party: unspecified

Male (unnamed but possibly John Major considering the Chronology of the Harry Potter stories)

• Prime Minister appearing in the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
• Party: unspecified (if John Major, Conservative Party)

Two unnamed Earls, one succeeding the other

• Prime Ministers in: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
• Party: Whig and Conservative, respectively

Unspecified gender

• In Ian McEwan's "The Child in Time".
• Party: Unspecified (presumably Conservative, Thatcher era.)

See also

• Fictional characters
• List of fictional political parties
• List of fictional U.S. Presidents
  • List of fictional U.S. Vice Presidents
  • List of fictional U.S. Presidential candidates
• List of fictional British monarchs
• List of fictional Australian politicians

References

1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/characters/brian_green_pm.shtml