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
A
- Lord Alloway
B
- Baldrick
- Lord Richard Beaminster
- former Prime Minister in The Duchess of Wrexe by Hugh Walpole
- Notes: served two terms
- Lord Bellinger
- 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
- Lord Brock
- Terry Brooks
- Sir George Brown, Baronet
- Alan B'Stard
C
- Sir John Cabal
- Michael Callow
- Prime Minister in: Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker
- Notes: Prime Minister in episode 1, "The National Anthem" in which a 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 Mortimer Chris
- Edward Clare
- Henry Collingridge
- Lord Coodle
- Phillip Cotton
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
- Lord de Terrier
- Rupert Devereaux
- Sir Thomas Doodle
- Lord Drummond
- 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
G
- Mr Geraldine
- Raymond Gould
- Maureen Graty
- Brian Green
- Joseph Green (MP for Hartley Dale, Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionery)
- Mr Gresham
H
- Jim Hacker
- Jeffrey Hale
- James Halstead
- John Hammett
- 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
- Tom Hutchinson
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)
- Iorwerth Jones
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
- Charles Lenton
- Charlie Lynton
- Arthur Lytton
- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
- Party: Unknown
M
- David MacAdam
- William Mildmay
- Joshua Monk
- Gloria Munday
O
- The Duke of Omnium (Plantagenet Palliser)
- Gerald O'Brien
- Walter Outrage, OM
P
- Harry Perkins (Harold Clement Perkins)
- Michael Phillips
- Played by: Robert Bathurst
- Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)
- Party: unspecified
- Kevin Pork (a.k.a. Superman)
- Rosamund 'Ros' Jane Pritchard
- Pre-Skool Prime Minister
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
S
- Harold Saxon (aka The Master)
- Edward Shaw
- David Somerset
- Dr. Davenport Spry
- 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
- 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
U
- Francis Urquhart
W
- Mr Waldemar
- Thomas Waring
- General Sir Harold Wharton
- Sidney Wilton
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
- Rab Butler
- Lord Byron
- Sebastian Coe
- Sebastian Coe
- Harriet Harman
- Roy Hattersley
Is Prime Minister in the Jeffrey Archer novel The Prodigal Daughter as mentioned by the main character Florentyna Kane.
- Denis Healey
- Iain Macleod
- Oswald Mosley
- John Pardoe
- Chris Patten
- Shirley Williams
- John Prescott
- Prime Minister in My Hero episode scene set 10 years in future (2015)
- Party: presumably Labour
- Peter Walker
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"
- White Female
- Female
- Black male
- White Male
- White Male
- White Male
- Male (unnamed but possibly John Major considering the Chronology of the Harry Potter stories)
- Two unnamed Earls, one succeeding the other
- Unspecified gender
- In Ian McEwan's "The Child in Time".
- Party: Unspecified (presumably Conservative, Thatcher era.)
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