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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- 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)
- Lord Appin
- former Prime Minister in A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan
- Party: Conservative
- Herbert Attwell
- Prime Minister who Jim Hacker serves under (in "Yes, Minister"), and eventually succeeds (in "Yes, Prime Minister"). Both were written by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
- Party: unspecified, but the series does denote that the party is neither Conservative nor Labour (with Jim Hacker wearing a white rosette in Open Government) and that the party holds seats in the West Midlands, Merseyside, Middlesbrough, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- Notes: Attwell is unnamed (and unseen) in the original TV series, only ever being referred to as "the PM". However, he is named in the virtually contemporaneous book adaptations written by the same authors.
B
- Played by: Tony Robinson
- Prime Minister in Blackadder: Back & Forth
- Party: Adder Party[1]
- 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
- 'Alec Beasley
- Played by Ralph Fiennes
- Prime Minister in Page Eight, 'Turks and Caicos,and Salting the Battlefields
- Originally wanted to replace MI5 with a Homeland Security style organization.
- 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, then becoming leader of the splinter 'New Patriot Party' (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.
- Caterham (first name unknown), nicknamed "Jack the Giant-Killer"
- Prime Minister in: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells
- A demagogue and rabble-rouser belonging to none of the traditional parties of British politics, Caterham won the elections by waging a hate campaign against the Giants - human children who grew to huge sizes by eating the "Food of the Gods" of the title. Once in power, Caterham tries to exterminate the Giants, but only manages to transform London into a huge battlefield.
- Michael Callow
- Played by: Rory Kinnear
- Prime Minister in: Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
- Notes: Prime Minister in episode 1, "The National Anthem" in which the release of a royal hostage is dependent on Callow's compliance with the terrorist's demand that the Prime Minister have sex with a pig on live television.
- Sir Walter Carey
- Prime Minister in "The Vanishing Prince", short story in The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
- 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
- Leighton Clarkson
- Played by: Clarkson Guy Williams
- Prime Minister in London Has Fallen
- Party: unspecified
- 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
Duncan Craig
- Prime Minister in The Politician's Husband
- Party: unspecified, presumably Conservative
- Notes: Mentioned in script, possible parody of David Cameron
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 than 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".
- Alastair Davies
- Prime Minister in 24: Live Another Day
- Played By: Stephen Fry
- Party: unspecified
- Notes:
- Mr Daubeny or Daubney
- Prime Minister in Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: Leader of the House of Commons in Phineas Finn. Generally supposed to represent Benjamin Disraeli
- Tom Dawkins
- Prime Minister in Secret State
- Played By: Gabriel Byrne
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: A former Army officer, who while serving in Bosnia, conducted a failed rescue mission for a journalist he was romantically involved with, resulting in the deaths of all concerned except himself.
- Later entered politics and eventually became Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Charles Flyte. Upon Flyte's death, Dawkins assumed the Premiership temporarily and later held the position permanently after winning a leadership election and then a subsequent general election
- Discovered a government/military/corporate conspiracy to provoke war with Iran for financial and political gain; opposed to such moves, Dawkins publicly went against pressure to go to war with Iran and called a vote of no confidence in his own government.
- Implied to have lost the vote and subsequently his premiership. His Chancellor, Felix Durrell, a member of the conspiracy, was also implied to have succeeded him.
- Hector D'Estrange
- Prime Minister in Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 by Lady Florence Dixie
- Real name: Gloriana (Gloria) de Lara
- Lady Florence Dixie, a campaigner for Women's suffrage, published in 1890 this utopian novel, which has been described as a feminist fantasy.[2] In it, women win the right to vote, as the result of the protagonist, Gloriana, posing as a man, Hector l'Estrange, and being elected to the House of Commons. The character of l'Estrange is clearly based on that of Oscar Wilde.[3] The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.
- 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
- Bernard Drake
- Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff
- Party: Conservative
- In a 1990 where there was no Perestroyka and the Cold War still goes on, the Prime Minister is deeply concerned by the erratic behaviour of his predecessor George Hyde, who after stepping down as PM attached himself to extreme right and neo-Nazi groups, and who is rumored to have actually been a Soviet sleeper agent. Such revelations could be vastly damaging and PM Drake is ready to be quite ruthless in preventing his predecessor's past from being exposed to the public gaze.
- 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.
- Felix Durrell
- Prime Minister in Secret State
- Played By: Rupert Graves
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: Served as Home Secretary in the governments of Charles Flyte and Tom Dawkins, before being promoted to Chancellor by Dawkins after a general election.
- He was financially linked to the Royal Caledonian Bank and the Petrofex Corporation, who were pursuing war with Iran for financial and political gain. As Dawkins acted against their wishes, Durrell mobilised government backbenchers to support him in a leadership challenge.
- Dawkins however called for a vote of no confidence in the government, which he lost and it was implied that Durrell took over from him.
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- John Eaton
- Prime Minister in The Lords' 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.
- David Edwards
- Prime Minister in The Royals
- Played by David Broughton-Davies
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- 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
- Charles Flyte
- Prime Minister in: Secret State
- Played By: Tobias Menzies
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: A first term Prime Minister, he was unpopular in the run-up to his re-election campaign judging by the feeling of his colleagues and the country in general. To rectify his unpopularity, he signed a lucrative business contract with the Petrofex Corporation to provide economic benefits to the UK.
- While on his way back from Dallas to visit the victims of the Scaro explosion (where a Petrofex plant had exploded, killing many), his plane was destroyed when a Petrofex fuel sample being carried on board was inadvertently set off by lightning and exploded, killing all on board including Flyte.
- Succeeded by his deputy, Tom Dawkins.
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Freya Gardner
- Prime Minister in The Politician's Husband
- Played By: Emily Watson
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: Minister of State for Schools and then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in Duncan Craig's government; wife of former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Aiden Hoynes who became Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary in her government.
- Party: unspecified, presumably Conservative
- Mr Geraldine
- Prime Minister in: A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: subsequently Leader of the Opposition, in The Gap in the Curtain
- 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
- Played by: Pamela Salem
- Prime Minister in The West Wing (television series)
- Party: unspecified.
- Brian Green
- Played by Nicholas Farrell
- Prime Minister in Torchwood series three: Children of Earth[4]
- 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
- Played by: Paul Eddington
- Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television), succeeding Herbert Attwell (above)
- 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: 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.
- Sir Joseph Humboldt
- Prime Minister in: Prisoner of Fire by Edmund Cooper
- Dictatorial Prime Minister in the 1990s (a future time when the book was written), making ruthless use of telepaths, whose power was becoming scientifically researched and harnessed in his time.
- 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.
- George Hyde
- Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff
- Party: Conservative
- Prime Minister (fictionally) in the late 1960s, dark secrets of his tenure surface thirty years later
J
- 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
- Simon Kerslake
- Elected Prime Minister of Britain in the alternate ending version of the book First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: In other editions of the novel the election is won by Labour party candidate Raymond Gould
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)
- The Marquess of Malvern
- Prime Minister in Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux
- Notes: also Foreign Secretary; in office during the Second Boer War (cf. the Marquess of Salisbury)
- David Marchant
- Prime Minister in Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton
- Party: New Conservatives
- Notes: First prime minister following a decade of republican rule under the People's Socialist Party. Premiership occurred sometime in the 2040s, mentioned in The Nano Flower to have lasted twelve years. Succeeded by Joshua Wheaton.
- Mr Melmount
- Prime Minister in In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
- Party: unknown
- Lord Merivale
- Prime Minister in "The Fad of the Fisherman", short story in The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
- 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
- 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
- Pre-Skool Prime Minister
- Played by: N/A
- Prime Minister in Pre-Skool Prime Minister
- Party: unspecified
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
- Prime Minister in: Anno Dracula and sequels by Kim Newman
- Party: Conservative
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- Peter St. John
- Prime Minister in: Zenith comic strip in 2000 AD
- Party: Conservative (succeeded Margaret Thatcher)
- Note: Strongly implied that he assassinated former prime minister Edward Heath at Thatcher's request
- 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: Saxon Party[5]
- Notes: Saxon had previously been a Minister with the Ministry of Defence. He later formed a party from defectors from others.
- Edward Shaw
- played by John Shrapnel
- Prime Minister in: The Palace
- Party: Labour
- Note: He is MP for Bromsgrove.
- Henry Lyulph Holland, 1st Earl of Slane
- Former Prime Minister in: All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
- Party: Unspecified
- Note: also served as Viceroy of India
- David Somerset
- Prime Minister in: Alternities by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
- Notes: Wins the premiership in 1977.
- Party: Labour
- The Right Honourable Sackville Somerset
- Prime Minister in The Adventure of the Lost Holiday by August Derleth
- Party: Unspecified
- Note: Is Prime Minister in 1931
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Joshua Wheaton
- Prime Minister in The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton
- Party: New Conservatives
- Notes: PM circa 2061, succeeded previous PM David Marchant. His government is currently dealing with the issue of Welsh secessionism; Wheaton's position as PM threatened by discontent from his backbenchers and the scheming of one of his cabinet members, Michael Harcourt.
- 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 with a fictional premiership
The following is a list of real or historical people who have been portrayed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in fiction, although they did not hold the office in real life. This is done either as a near future or alternate history scenario, or occasionally for humorous purposes. Also included are actual British Prime Ministers with a fictional premiership at a different time and/or under different circumstances than the one in actual history.
- In the alternate history novel Dominion by C. J. Sansom, World War II ended in June 1940 when the British government, under the leadership of the Prime Minister Lord Halifax, signed a peace treaty with Nazi Germany in Berlin. Due to poor health, Halifax resigned as Prime Minister in 1941 and was succeeded by the 78-year-old David Lloyd George. Following Lloyd George's death in 1945, Beaverbrook became Prime Minister. He led a coalition government which consisted of the pro-Treaty factions of the Conservatives and Labour as well as the British Union of Fascists. In November 1952, Beaverbrook made an agreement to transport all British Jews to the Isle of Wight, which was under Nazi control, so that they could be sent to the concentration camps of Eastern Europe. In return, the Nazis allowed the UK greater freedom when it came to trading with the rest of Europe. He resigned in October 1953.
- Prime Minister in Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
- Party: unspecified, either leftist Labour Party or Communist
- Prime Minister in Crossed by Garth Ennis
- During the outbreak of a contagious, zombie like virus in the United Kingdom, the country is plunged into anarchy as entire cities become vast charnel house's, forcing the Prime Minister and his staff to evacuate to a government bunker in Yorkshire. Brown falls victim to the infected due to an internal outbreak within the bunker, leading to the near total collapse of the British government.
- Prime Minister in Random Quest by John Wyndham
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: In a parallel universe in which World War II never happened, Butler was Prime Minister in 1954.
- Prime Minister in The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- Party: Industrial Radical Party, or the "Rads", developed from the Radicals.
- 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."
- Prime Minister in The Brittas Empire episode set in 2019
- Party: Conservatives
- She was Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics and she subsequently is the first female Prime Minister. Her predecessor was Chris Patten.
- In the alternate history novel Dominion by C. J. Sansom, World War II ended in June 1940 when the British government, under the leadership of Lord Halifax, signed a peace treaty with Nazi Germany in Berlin. Due to poor health, Halifax resigned as Prime Minister in 1941 and was succeeded by Lloyd George, who was then 78 years old. His second term as Prime Minister lasted until his death in 1945. He was succeeded by Lord Beaverbrook, who served in that position until October 1953.
- In the Jeffrey Archer novel The Prodigal Daughter, Hattersley was the Prime Minister.
- Prime Minister in the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen and Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won"
- Party: Presumably Labour
- Prime Minister in The Mirage by Matt Ruff
- In an alternate history where Israel was established in Germany, he is one of a number of European and North American leaders to call for Israel's destruction.
- Prime Minister in: Saviour of the Empire by George Fields
- Party: Whig
- In a timeline where the North American colonies did not rebel against British rule, he entered politics due to indignation at slave-owners foiling the Emancipation Law in 1833. After a stint in the North American Provincial Legislature he graduated to the Imperial Parliament in London and soon achieved prominence despite the aristocracy's disdain for his "uncouth provincial manners". Was among initiators of the finally approved Emancipation of the Slaves in 1856. He becomes Prime Minister in 1857 amidst the worst crisis in the history of the British Empire - widespread rebellions of slave-owning colonies in North America, the Caribbean and South Africa, simultaneously with the Indian Mutiny, a new Opium War with China and a Russian invasion of the Ottoman Empire, Britain's ally, aimed at seizing Constantinople - and with the Russians actively aiding and abetting all of Britain's other foes. Sir Abraham guided the Empire through four terrible years of war on land and at sea on multiple fronts, and succumbed to an assassin's bullet just as victory came in plain sight. Hundreds of thousands followed his cortege through the streets of London. He was interred at Westminster Abbey in the presence of Queen Victoria and declared to have been "Among the Greatest of England's Sons", on a par with King Arthur and Francis Drake.
- In Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel Alternities, Macleod is mentioned as having served as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1977.
- Authorizes the secret deployment of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Britain.
- Party: Conservative
- 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.
- In Guy Walters's The Leader, Mosley has taken power as "The Leader" of Great Britain in 1937. King Edward VIII is still on the throne after his marriage, Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man, and Prime Minister Mosley is conspiring with Adolf Hitler about the fate of Britain's Jewish population.
- In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, a secret pact between Charles Lindbergh who becomes President of the United States and Hitler includes an agreement to impose Mosley as the ruler of a German-occupied Britain with America's blessing after a ruse in which Lindbergh convinces Churchill to negotiate peace with Hitler, which deliberately fails — mirroring the dishonesty and repudiation of key Hitler-signed treaties, the Munich Conference Accord and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
- In Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron, Mosley is shot down and killed in 1918 by Erich von Stalheim (from the Biggles series by W. E. Johns) and a character later comments that "a career has been ended before it was begun."
- In the Elseworlds comic Superman: War of the Worlds, Mosley becomes Prime Minister after the defeat of the Martian invasion of 1938.
- In the alternate history novel The Man Who Prevented WW2 by Roy Carter, Mosley became Prime Minister when the British Union of Fascists won the 1935 general election and remained in office until his death in March 1980. He forged an alliance with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan and went to war with the Irish Free State, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Greece. During the war with Greece, his government dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Salonika on 17 January 1941.
- Party: British Union of Fascists
- Played by: himself
- Prime Minister in Black Cinderella Two Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
- Party: Liberal
- He was Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics. His predecessor was Peter Walker while his successor was Harriet Harman
- In a parallel universe featured in the Sliders Season Four episode "Asylum", Thatcher collaborated with the Kromaggs when they invaded her Earth. She agreed to give them access to the oil reserves in the North Sea in exchange for leaving the United Kingdom alone. After the end of the Kromagg War, collaborators came to be known as "Thatchers."
- Party: Conservative
- Mentioned as being the current Prime Minister in the Doctor Who story The Green Death.[5]
- Party: Presumably Liberal
- He is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics. His predecessor was Denis Healey and his successor was Chris Patten.
- 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)
- In the alternate history novel Settling Accounts: In at the Death as part of the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove, Sir Horace Wilson succeeds an authoritarian Winston Churchill in 1944 as acting Prime Minister, bringing a disastrous Second Great War against the German Empire to a conclusion.
- In The War That Came Early, also by Harry Turtledove, World War II breaks out in 1938 over Czechoslovakia. In 1940, after the United Kingdom and France switch sides, and joins Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, Horace Wilson succeeds Neville Chamberlain in 1940, and imposes an increasingly authoritarian government. Wilson is finally overthrown by a military coup in 1941, and is held in protective custody, while Britain ends the war against the USSR and goes back to war against Germany.
- In the alternate history novel Dominion by C. J. Sansom, World War II ended in June 1940 when the British government, under the leadership of Lord Halifax, signed a peace treaty with Nazi Germany in Berlin. Due to poor health, Halifax resigned as Prime Minister in 1941 and was succeeded by the 78-year-old David Lloyd George.
- In the alternate history novel For the Sake of England by Richard K. Burns in which Winston Churchill was born in New York City in 1874 when his mother Jennie Jerome left his father Lord Randolph Churchill and was elected President of the United States in 1936, Lord Halifax became Prime Minister in 1940 and signed a peace treaty with Nazi Germany after the Battle of France. However, Adolf Hitler betrayed Halifax and attacked the UK in 1941, leading the United States to enter the war.
- In Stephen Baxter and Simon Bradshaw's short story "First to the Moon!", Halifax becomes Prime Minister in a timeline where Edward VIII remained king. Halifax was still Prime Minister in 1950, when the British - using captured Soviet rocket scientists under Sergei Korolev - launch the first manned Moon mission.
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.)
- White Female
- Played by: Karen Taylor
- Prime Minister 'The Brass Lady' in: Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor (comedy series)
- Party: unspecified. Adventures of "Junior minister catapulted to power" ('Daily Globe') after "Cat flu wipes out entire cabinet" ('Barrow Advertiser'). Described as "First PM with nice shoes since Churchill" (by 'Celeb' magazine), she is more interested in having a good time than running the country.
See also
- Fictional characters
- List of fictional political parties
- List of fictional U.S. Presidents
- List of fictional British monarchs
- List of fictional Australian politicians
References
- ↑ Curtis, Richard, Elton, Ben, Atkinson, Rowan (1999). Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, p. 245. Penguin Books, London. ISBN 978-0-140-28035-7.
- ↑
- ↑ Heilmann, Ann, Wilde's New Women: the New Woman on Wilde in Uwe Böker, Richard Corballis, Julie A. Hibbard, The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years (Rodopi, 2002) pp. 135–147, in particular p. 139
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/characters/brian_green_pm.shtml
- 1 2 Parkin, Lance & Pearson, Lars (2012). AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe (3rd Edition), p. 259. Mad Norwegian Press, Des Moines. ISBN 978-193523411-1.
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