List of fictional British Prime Ministers

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Fictional stories featuring the political scene in Westminster or Whitehall in the United Kingdom, often feature fictional British Prime Ministers - 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.

1 List of fictional Prime Ministers
2 Unnamed Prime Ministers
3 Fictional Prime Ministers who are real people
4 See also

[edit] List of fictional Prime Ministers

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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)

Baldrick
- Played by: Tony Robinson
- Prime Minister in Blackadder: Back & Forth
- Party: unspecified

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

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

Blocket
- Played by: George A. Cooper
- Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- Party: Labour

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

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

Sir Mortimer Chris
- Played by: Peter Cook
- Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
- Party: Conservative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Eddington portrayed fictional British Prime Minister Jim Hacker on BBC's Yes, Prime Minister.

Jim Hacker
- Played by: Paul Eddington
- Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television)
- Party: unspecified

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

Tom Hutchinson
- Played by: Ronald Fraser
- Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- Party: Conservative

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
- Notes: Was also mentioned as President of Great Britain in the parallel earth of Doomsday.

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

Raymond Gould
- Prime Minister in: First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, in the British edition of the book
- Party: Labour

Simon Kerslake
- Prime Minister in: First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, in the American edition of the book and the Granada Television adaptation
- Party: Conservative

Charles Lenton
- Prime Minister in: Corridors of Power by C. P. Snow
- Party: Conservative

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

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

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

The Duke of Omnium (Plantagenet Palliser)
- Played by Philip Latham (The Pallisers, BBC Television)
- Prime Minister in: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Liberal, Coalition

Walter Outrage, OM
- Prime Minister in: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- Party: unspecified
- Notes: also mentioned in passing in Black Mischief

Harry Perkins (Harold Clement Perkins)
- Played by: Ray McAnally
- Prime Minister in: A Very British Coup (television)
- 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: The fictional Social Democratic Alliance (SODEMALL) party.

Rosamund 'Ros' Jane Pritchard
- Played by: Jane Horrocks
- Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
- Party: The fictional Purple Alliance

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

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 Stewart 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 Sutler
- Played by: John Hurt
- Prime Minister in: The 2005 motion-picture adaptation of the graphic novel 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" and is named Adam J. Susan. It has been conformed by the screenwriters that they made the name Sutler by combining Susan and Hitler, as a reference to Adolf Hitler.

Sir Derrick Trant
- Prime Minister in: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
- Party: Labour

Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards

Francis Urquhart
- Played by: Ian Richardson
- Prime Minister in: House of Cards trilogy
- Party: Conservative

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 (fictional)

Sidney Wilton
- Prime Minister in: Endymion by the Earl of Beaconsfield
- Party: Liberal

Michael Year
- Prime Minister in: UNIT audio dramas The Longest Night and Snakehead referred to by Rose in Aliens of London as Mr Year, body found in cupboard in cabinet room.
- Party:Conservative

Edward Clare
- Prime Minister in Number Ten by Sue Townsend
- Party: unspecified - probably Labour

[edit] Unnamed Prime Ministers

- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Zeppelin (film, 1971)
- Party: unknown

- Played by: Michael Gambon
- Prime Minister in: Ali G Indahouse (film, 2002)
- Party: unspecified

- First name "David"
- Played by: Hugh Grant
- Prime Minister in:Love Actually (film, 2003)
- Party: unspecified; references suggest may be Conservative

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

- two unnamed Earls, one succeeding the other
- Prime Ministers in: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Whig and Conservative, respectively

- 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)

- Female Prime Minister (unnamed)
- 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).

- Male Prime Minister (unnamed, possibly John Major considering the timeline of Harry Potter)
- 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)

- Black male Prime Minister (unnamed)
- Prime Minister in Strontium Dog stories in 2000 AD comic.
- Party: unspecified

- Male Prime Minister
- Prime Minister in Stormbreaker portrayed by Robbie Coltrane
- Party: unspecified

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

[edit] Fictional Prime Ministers who are 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.

Lord Byron
- Prime Minister in The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Party: Industrial Radical Party, or the "Rads"; possibly based on the Radicals who joined the Whigs to form the Liberal Party.

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 BNP and the Keep Sunday Special Party."

Sebastian Coe
- Prime Minister in The Brittas Empire episode set in 2019
- Party: Conservatives

Denis Healey
- Prime Minister in 1987 graphic novel Watchmen
- Party: unspecified, presumably Labour

Oswald Mosley
- Prime Minister in various "Nazis win World War II" stories, e.g., the Doctor Who novel Timewyrm: Genesis
- Party: British Union of Fascists

John Pardoe
- Prime Minister in Black Cinderella II Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
- Party: Liberal

Shirley Williams
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who: 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