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 actors who portrayed the character.

Named fictional characters

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A

  • former Prime Minister in A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan

B

  • former Prime Minister in The Duchess of Wrexe by Hugh Walpole
  • Played by: George A. Cooper
  • Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

C

Duncan Craig

D

  • Prime Minister in The Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs (2012–2014)
  • 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. 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.[2] The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.
  • Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff

E

  • Prime Minister in The Lords' Day (2009–2012)
  • Party: Conservative
  • Prime Minister in First Lady
  • Prime Minister in The Royals
  • Played by David Broughton-Davies

F

G

Freya Gardner

H

  • Played by: Ronald Fraser
  • Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
  • Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff

J

K

  • Elected Prime Minister of Britain in the alternate ending version of the book First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer

L

  • Prime Minister in: Corridors of Power by C. P. Snow
  • Played by: Ronald Adam
  • Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)

M

O

P

  • Played by: Robert Bathurst
  • Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)

R

  • Played by: Peter Cook
  • Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

S

T

U

W

Y

  • Prime Minister in: UNIT audio dramas The Longest Night and Snakehead.

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Prime Minister in the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen and Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won"
  • Prime Minister in: Saviour of the Empire by George Fields
  • 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.
  • Prime Minister in My Hero episode scene set 10 years in future (2015)
  • In the parallel universe featured in the 2006 BBC Four adaptation of Random Quest by John Wyndham, Smith was the Prime Minister in 2006. At this time, the United Kingdom was suffering severe drought, leading Smith to declare a state of emergency. There was widespread panic throughout Southeast England and Wales as the reservoirs have been dry for months. Tony Blair was the newly appointed Minister for Drought.
  • 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."

Unnamed

Due to the absence of full names, this list is ordered by available information.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Curtis, Richard, Elton, Ben, Atkinson, Rowan (1999). Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, p. 245. Penguin Books, London. ISBN 978-0-140-28035-7.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  4. 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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