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.

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[edit] List of fictional Prime Ministers

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  • Blocket
    • Played by: George A. Cooper
    • Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
    • Party: Labour
  • Sir Edward Ferrier
  • Joseph Green (MP for Hartley Dale, Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionary)
Paul Eddington portrayed fictional British Prime Minister Jim Hacker on BBC's Yes, Prime Minister.
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Paul Eddington portrayed fictional British Prime Minister Jim Hacker on BBC's Yes, Prime Minister.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arthur Lytton
    • Played by: Ronald Adam
    • Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
    • Party: Unknown
  • Michael Phillips
    • Played by: Robert Bathurst
    • Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)
    • Party: unspecified
  • 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
  • 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 by combining Susan and Hitler, as a reference to Adolf Hitler.
Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards
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Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards
  • 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

[edit] Unnamed Prime Ministers

    • Played by: Ronald Adam
    • Prime Minister in: Zeppelin (film, 1971)
    • Party: unknown
    • First name "David"
    • Played by: Hugh Grant
    • Prime Minister in:Love Actually (film, 2003)
    • Party: unspecified; references suggest may be Conservative
    • 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)

[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.

[edit] See also

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom Flag of the United Kingdom
Walpole, Wilmington, Pelham, Newcastle, Devonshire, Newcastle, Bute, G Grenville, Rockingham, Chatham (Pitt the Elder), Grafton, North, Rockingham, Shelburne, Portland, Pitt the Younger, Addington, Pitt the Younger, W Grenville, Portland, Perceval, Liverpool, Canning, Goderich, Wellington, Grey, Melbourne, Peel, Melbourne, Peel, Russell, Derby, Aberdeen, Palmerston, Derby, Palmerston, Russell, Derby, Disraeli, Gladstone, Disraeli, Gladstone, Salisbury, Gladstone, Salisbury, Gladstone, Rosebery, Salisbury, Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Baldwin, MacDonald, Baldwin, MacDonald, Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill, Attlee, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Wilson, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair
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