List of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom
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The portrayals of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom have been either completely fictional figures, or composite figures based on real-life people, or real-life figures who have never been prime minister other than in fiction.
List of fictional prime ministers
Real people on this list are marked:
Prime Minister | Work | Medium | Year(s) | Actor | Notes | Ref. |
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David | Love Actually | Film | 2003 | Hugh Grant | [1][2][3][4][5] | |
Thomas Andrews | A Very British Coup | Novel | 1982 | Harry Perkins' predecessor as Prime Minister, Andrews was the head of a Conservative-SDP Government of National Unity which suffered a landslide defeat to Labour. Thereafter, Andrews served as the Leader of the Opposition. | ||
A Very British Coup | Television | 1988 | Roger Brierley | Andrews was the head of a Conservative majority government which lost in a landslide defeat in the 1991 general election to Labour following a banking sector crisis brought about by revelations of misconduct uncovered by Perkins. Andrews thereafter served as Leader of the Opposition. He was mentioned as representing the Surrey East constituency. | ||
Alan B'Stard | The New Statesman | Television | 1992 | Rik Mayall | In the final episode "The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard", Alan B'Stard, as leader of the New Patriotic Party, became an extra-parliamentary Prime Minister as he did not contest a seat during the general election called over British membership of the European Economic Community. When his deputy leader Paddy O'Rourke suggested that he rather than B'Stard would become Prime Minister as a result, B'Stard briefly considered using his party's mandate to become a dictatorial Lord Protector instead. | [1][2] |
Baldrick | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Short film | 1999 | Tony Robinson | After accidentally constructing a working time machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci so that his master Lord Blackadder could win £30,000 in a New Year's prank-cum-bet, Baldrick became the puppet Prime Minister to Edmund III of the United Kingdom after they used the time machine to manipulate history for their benefit. | [1][6] |
Lord Beaverbrook![]() |
Dominion | Novel | 2012 | [7] | ||
Lord Bellinger | The Adventure of the Second Stain | Short story | 1904 | Collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes | [8] | |
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Film | 1922 | Cecil Ward | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [9] | |
Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1951 | J. Leslie Frith | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [10] | |
Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1968 | Cecil Parker | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [11] | |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Television | 1986 | Harry Andrews | Episode: "The Second Stain" | [12] | |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel ![]() |
The Difference Engine | Novel | 1990 | A member of the Industrial Radical Party, formed following Charles Babbage's successful development of a working analyticial engine and the early arrival of the Information Revolution, Brunel succeeded Lord Byron following his death in 1855 amidst rioting during to the Great Stink. | [13] | |
Lord Byron ![]() |
The Difference Engine | Novel | 1990 | A member of the Industrial Radical Party, formed following Charles Babbage's successful development of a working analytical engine and the early arrival of the Information Revolution, he died in office in 1855 amidst rioting during to the Great Stink. | [13] | |
Michael Callow | Black Mirror | Television | 2011 | Rory Kinnear | Episode: "The National Anthem" | [1][2][4] |
Mortimer Chris | Whoops Apocalypse | Film | 1986 | Peter Cook | [3][5] | |
Gladraeli Clampvulture | Bleak Expectations | Radio | 2012 | Geoffrey Whitehead | In the Series 5 finale "A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated", he refused to assist Pip Bin in foiling Mr Benevolent's plan to destroy the universe until learning that doing so would be a "huge vote winner", but only doing so with an ineffective one-man British Isles Defence Force. He dies after an enraged Pip throws him into Benevolent's Universe Destroying Device. | [6] |
Leighton Clarkson | London Has Fallen | Film | 2016 | Guy Williams | [14] | |
Adam Cornwell | Red Election | Television | 2021 | James D'Arcy | [15] | |
Mr Daubeny | Phineas Redux | Novel | 1873 | [16][17] | ||
Alastair Davies | 24: Live Another Day | Television | 2014 | Stephen Fry | Composite of David Cameron and Boris Johnson | [1][2] |
Tom Dawkins | Secret State | Television | 2012 | Gabriel Byrne | Formerly the Deputy Prime Minister to Charles Flyte, he succeeded Flyte after his death in a plane crash. After discovering a plot to engineer a war against Iran, he calls a vote of no confidence against his own government. | [18] |
Hector d'Estrange | Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 | Novel | 1890 | Character is a pseudonym of Gloria De Lara | [19][20] | |
Tristan Evans | King Charles III | Film | 2017 | Adam James | [21] | |
Endymion Ferrars | Endymion | Novel | 1880 | [22] | ||
Brian Green | Torchwood: Children of Earth | Television | 2009 | Nicholas Farrell | [23] | |
Mr Gresham | Phineas Redux | Novel | 1873 | [16] | ||
Jim Hacker | Yes, Prime Minister | Television | 1986–1988 | Paul Eddington | Previously the Minister for Administrative Affairs and Party Chairman, Hacker became Prime Minister in Party Games after the surprise retirement of his predecessor. Hacker positioned himself as a moderate candidate after learning that the Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer (the likely successors following the Home Secretary's resignation due to drink-driving) both posed serious security risks. In companion books written as published diary entries, Hacker ceased being Prime Minister after leading his party to defeat at the next general election. | [1][4][6] |
Yes, Prime Minister | Television | 2013 | David Haig | Depicted as the leader of a coalition government during the Eurozone Crisis, the series revolves around his efforts to secure a multi-trillion dollar interest-free loan from Kumranistan as a solution. | [24] | |
Lord Halifax![]() |
The Afrika Reich | Novel | 2011 | [25] | ||
Dominion | Novel | 2012 | [26] | |||
The Madagaskar Plan | Novel | 2015 | [27] | |||
John Hatcher | Doomsday | Film | 2008 | Alexander Siddig | [28] | |
James Jaspers | Comics | Character in Marvel Universe | [6] | |||
Harriet Jones | Doctor Who | Television | 2005 | Penelope Wilton | Episode: "The Christmas Invasion". Whilst in the two-part story "Aliens of London" / "World War Three", the Doctor states that she would serve as a successful three-term Prime Minister, having met her as a backbench MP, he manages to instigate a vote of no confidence against her as revenge for her ordering the destruction of the retreating Sycorax ship. (Yes, we know who she is.) | [1][6][2] |
Adam Lang | The Ghost Writer | Film | 2010 | Pierce Brosnan | Based on Tony Blair | [2][3] |
Arthur Lytton | Seven Days to Noon | Film | 1950 | Ronald Adam | [14][5] | |
David MacAdam | The Kidnapped Prime Minister | Short story | 1923 | Collected in Poirot Investigates | [29] | |
Oswald Mosley![]() |
The Leader | Novel | 2003 | [30] | ||
Duke of Omnium | The Prime Minister | Novel | 1876 | [31] | ||
Gwen Oxlade | Henry IX | Television | 2017 | Pippa Haywood | [32] | |
Jo Patterson | Doctor Who | Television | 2021 | Harriet Walter | Episode: "Revolution of the Daleks" | [33] |
Harry Perkins | A Very British Coup | Novel | 1982 | After being unsuccessfully opposed by the Civil Service, the General Staff, newspaper magnate Sir George Fison, and the United States through several plots, Perkins is forced to resign after a meltdown at a nuclear power station whose creation he supported as Secretary of State for the Public Sector. He represented the Sheffield Central constituency. The sequel novel The Friends of Harry Perkins, published in 2019 and set forty years after the events of A Very British Coup, opens with Harry Perkins' funeral. | [6] | |
A Very British Coup | Television | 1988 | Ray McAnally | Following much of the plot of the novel, albeit with Perkins opposed to nuclear power, Perkins is presented with forged evidence of financial irregularity suggesting he accepted £300,000 from the Soviet Government as part of loan negotiations with the International State Bank of Moscow, implicating his former lover Helen Jarvis. With Fison's newspapers falsely speculating on Perkins' health, he uses a live national broadcast intended for the announcement of his resignation on grounds of ill health to reveal the blackmail conspiracy and to call an early general election. On Election Day morning, it is implied that a military coup has begun. He represented the Sheffield Central constituency. | [34] | |
Mrs Plumber | The Third World War | Novel | 1978 | Based on Margaret Thatcher | [35][36] | |
Keith Price | Late Night Mash | Television | 2022 | Josh Pugh | During a Newsdeck report, it was announced that as a result of the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis, members of the public were to be randomly selected and appointed to serve as Prime Minister for two week tenures, similar to jury service. During a press conference, Keith Price, a plumber from Cambridge, announced his policies of banning strawberries (as his wife was allergic), prohibiting non-regular customers at the Merchant's Arms pub in Cambridge from sitting at the bar, pursuing a moon mission, and bombing France. | [37] |
Rosamund Jane Pritchard | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Television | 2006 | Jane Horrocks | Originally a supermarket manager from Eatanswill, Yorkshire. After standing as an independent candidate out of anger at the state of British politics, she formed the Purple Alliance, a third-way party whose members were former Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and predominantly female. Promising never to deceive voters, her spontaneous approach to decision-making leads her proposing Green Wednesday, during which car use would be banned. | [2][34] |
Michael Rimmer | The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Film | 1970 | Peter Cook | Based on David Frost. Formerly a pollster and Conservative Party advisor, Rimmer became Prime Minister after murdering his predecessor. Rimmer gained dictatorial powers in a referendum after generating extreme levels of voter apathy by requiring the electorate to engage in constant postal voting and televoting on trivial or complex matters. | [38] |
Vivienne Rook | Years and Years | Television | 2019 | Emma Thompson | The leader of the far-right, populist Four Star Party (named after her tactic of swearing on pre-watershed television to appeal to disaffected voters). She was the first incumbent Prime Minister to be arrested, charged with murder and conspiracy to murder for the establishment of so-called 'Erstwhile Sites' for the detainment of asylum seekers and economic migrants. Although incarcerated, it is implied that she escaped with the aid of powerful sponsors and was replaced with a double. | [39] |
Harold Saxon | Doctor Who | Television | 2007 | John Simm | Episode: "The Sound of Drums". Alias of The Master, an evil Time Lord and one of The Doctor's archenemies. | [1] |
Peter St John | Zenith | Comics | 1987–2000 | [6] | ||
Michael Stevens | Little Britain | Television | 2003 | Anthony Head | [6][4] | |
Reginald Stevens | No Love for Johnnie | Novel | 1959 | [6] | ||
No Love for Johnnie | Film | 1961 | Geoffrey Keen | [6] | ||
Robert Sutherland | Cobra | Television | 2020 | Robert Carlyle | [40] | |
Adam Susan | V for Vendetta | Graphic novel | 1982–1985 | A former police chief constable, he and the Norsefire Party rose to power by exploiting poverty, chaos, and panic following a worldwide nuclear war, whereafter he adopted the title of Leader. A lifelong virgin and possibly a repressed homosexual, Susan falls in love with the super-computer Fate after the anarchistic terrorist V manipulated it to express the emotion of love to drive Susan insane. | ||
Adam Sutler | V for Vendetta | Film | 2006 | John Hurt | Based on Adam Susan from the original comic series. Formerly the Conservative Under-Secretary of Defence, he founded the Norsefire Party, whose patrons developed the St Marys virus and corresponding cure, using them to perpetrate false flag attacks and win a general election, respectively. Sutler held the title of High Chancellor following the establishment of the Norsefire dictatorship. In exchange for the surrender of the anarchistic terrorist V, Sutler is kidnapped and executed by Creedy, the leader of the Finger (the military police). | [3] |
Henry Tobin | Party's Over | Radio | 2019 | Miles Jupp | The former Prime Minister, the series is set in the aftermath of Tobin's disastrous eight-month-long premiership and follows his misadventures as he attempts to repair his reputation and find lucrative employment. In the pilot, his time in office ended following a landslide defeat to the Opposition and the loss of his own seat in a snap general election, and his own unceremonious removal as party leader, although in later episodes it is implied that he lost a vote of no confidence. It is implied that he was a Conservative, having succeeded real-life Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May and mentioned several Conservative ministers as former colleagues. | [41] |
Francis Urquhart | To Play the King | Novel | 1993 | After the newly crowned king criticises many of Urquhart's policies and establishes himself as an unofficial Leader of the Opposition, Urquhart wins a majority in a snap general election, thus forcing the king to abdicate in favour of his son. | [42] | |
To Play the King | Television | 1993 | Ian Richardson | [42] | ||
The Final Cut | Novel | 1995 | [42] | |||
The Final Cut | Television | 1995 | Ian Richardson | [42] | ||
John Vosler | Bodyguard | Television | 2018 | David Westhead | Forced to resign after a kompromat originally given to Home Secretary Julia Montague was leaked following her assassination. | [14] |
Lawrence Wainwright | A Very British Coup | Novel | 1982 | Initially serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Wainwright was a co-conspirator in a plot to stymie the legislative agenda of Prime Minister Harry Perkins, hoping to become Prime Minister himself as a result. After his role in organising a power workers' strike designed to destroy Perkins' credibility is discovered by Perkins and his loyalists, Wainwright is demoted to Northern Ireland Secretary. After Perkins' resignation, Wainwright was elected leader by a majority of Labour MPs whilst Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House Jock Steeples was declared acting leader by the Labour Party National Executive. After the King appointed Wainwright as Prime Minister after the intervention of DI5, civil disruption and abortive legal procedings against Wainwright ensued. After replacing the entire Cabinet, Wainwright abandoned Perkins' policies of British withdrawal from NATO and nuclear disarmament. | ||
Horace Wilson![]() |
Settling Accounts: In at the Death | Novel | 2007 | In an alternate timeline in which the Confederate States won the War of Secession over the United States, the Second Great War (1941-1944) in Europe witnesses the destruction of London, Norwich and Brighton (alongside Paris and Petrograd) by German superbombs. After the ousting of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chancellor of the Exchequer Oswald Mosley, Horace Wilson was installed as a caretaker Prime Minister tasked with negotiating peace with the victorious Central Powers. | ||
The War That Came Early | Novel series | 2009-2014 | In an alternate timeline in which the Second World War began in 1938 due to the assassination of Konrad Henlein by a Czech nationalist, Horace Wilson succeeded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister in 1940 (Winston Churchill having been killed by a drink-driver). As a result of his increasingly anti-democratic leadership, a relatively bloodless military coup occurred in 1941 resulting in Wilson and his Cabinet being placed in preventative detention and replaced by a military junta which respected civil liberties and voices of dissent. | |||
Sidney Wilton | Endymion | Novel | 1880 | [43] | ||
Unnamed | Lifeforce | Film | 1985 | Peter Porteous | [5] | |
Unnamed | North Sea Hijack | Film | 1980 | Faith Brook | [5] | |
Unnamed | The Tunnel | Film | 1935 | George Arliss | [5] | |
Unnamed | Stormbreaker | Novel | 2000 | [44] | ||
Unnamed | Stormbreaker | Film | 2006 | Robbie Coltrane | [5] | |
Unnamed | Percy's Progress | Film | 1974 | Harry H. Corbett | [5] | |
Unnamed | Carry On Emmannuelle | Film | 1978 | Robert Dorning | [5] | |
Unnamed | Random Harvest | Film | 1942 | Edward Fielding | [5] | |
Unnamed | Heavens Above! | Film | 1963 | Colin Gordon | [5] | |
Unnamed | Water | Film | 1985 | Maureen Lipman | [5] | |
Unnamed | Mr Stink | Novel | 2009 | [45] | ||
Dave | Mr Stink | TV Film | 2012 | David Walliams | David Walliams is the author of the original novel. Could have been named after David Cameron. | [46] |
Unnamed | Damage | Film | 1992 | Tony Doyle | [5] | |
Unnamed | Poirot | Television | 1990 | Henry Moxon | Episode: "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" | [47] |
Unnamed | ICE | TV Film | 2011 | Simon Callow | [48][circular reference] |
See also
- List of fictional political parties
- List of fictional presidents of the United States
- List of fictional British monarchs
- List of fictional Australian politicians
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