Maureen Graty
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Maureen Graty is a fictional Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during the mid-point of season 6 of the American television series, The West Wing. She was played by British film and television actress Pamela Salem.
She makes her appearance, though we only see her on television, during episode 14, "The Wake Up Call". During the episode the Iranian Air Force shoot down a British passenger aeroplane, and the Bartlet White House try their best to prevent the Graty government from using the act as a pretext to possibly unjustified military action against suspected Iranian nuclear facilities.
We are told that PM Graty is prone to overreaction, quoting Churchill, and is battling factions within her own party, the implication being that she is in the mould of Margaret Thatcher. We are also told that her Government is unstable suggesting she may have only a small majority in the House of Commons.
She must have become Prime Minister sometime between November 2003 and October 2005 (when we hear her), as the British Prime Minister mentioned in the episode "Shutdown" is male. (It is said "the British Prime Minister and his wife are coming to dinner"). Her husband's name is Reggie. She is also heard speaking to President Bartlet on the speaker phone after American Peacekeeping forces have been killed in the middle east in the episode the "Dover Test" which takes place around October 2005.
