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.
Lord Alloway
Prime Minister in the Hercule Poirot short story "The Submarine Plans" by Agatha Christie
Lord Appin
former Prime Minister in A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan
Herbert Attwell
Prime Minister who Jim Hacker serves under (in "Yes, Minister"), and eventually succeeds (in "Yes, Prime Minister"). Both were written by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
Baldrick
Played by: Tony Robinson
Prime Minister in Blackadder: Back & Forth; member of Adder Party
Lord Richard Beaminster
former Prime Minister in The Duchess of Wrexe by Hugh Walpole
Alec Beasley
Played by Ralph Fiennes
Prime Minister in Page Eight, Turks and Caicos,and Salting the Battlefields
Lord Bellinger
Played by: Harry Andrews (Granada adaptation)
Prime Minister in The Adventure of the Second Stain (a Sherlock Holmes story)
Blocket
Played by: George A. Cooper
Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Leonard Braithwaite FRSJ
Prime Minister (briefly) in When the Kissing Had to Stop by Constantine Fitzgibbon
Lord Brock
Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington and Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Terry Brooks
Prime Minister in Doctor Who: Option Lock by Justin Richards
Sir George Brown, Baronet
Prime Minister in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Alan B'Stard
Played by: Rik Mayall
Prime Minister (briefly) in The New Statesman
Sir John Cabal
Prime Minister in: Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton
Caterham (first name unknown), nicknamed "Jack the Giant-Killer"
Prime Minister in: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells
Michael Callow
Played by: Rory Kinnear
Prime Minister in: Black Mirror: "The National Anthem" by Charlie Brooker
Sir Walter Carey
Prime Minister in "The Vanishing Prince", short story in The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
Joan Carpenter
Prime Minister in: The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
Sir Mortimer Chris
Played by: Peter Cook
Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
Edward Clare
Prime Minister in Number Ten by Sue Townsend
Leighton Clarkson
Played by: Clarkson Guy Williams
Prime Minister in London Has Fallen
Henry Collingridge
Prime Minister at the start of House of Cards trilogy
Lord Coodle
Prime Minister in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Phillip Cotton
Prime Minister in Doctor Who: Option Lock by Justin Richards
Duncan Craig
Prime Minister in The Politician's Husband
Alfred Danderson
Prime Minister in First Lady by Michael Dobbs 2007–2010
David (First Name only, no last name given) – played by Hugh Grant.
Prime Minister in Love Actually, (2003 movie)
Mark D'Arby
Prime Minister in The Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs (2012–2014)
Tom Davis
Prime Minister in The Thick of It
Alastair Davies
Prime Minister in 24: Live Another Day
Played By: Stephen Fry
Mr Daubeny or Daubney
Prime Minister in Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Tom Dawkins
Prime Minister in Secret State
Played By: Gabriel Byrne
Hector D'Estrange
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. The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women.
Lord de Terrier
Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage and Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Rupert Devereaux
Prime Minister in The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Sir Thomas Doodle
Prime Minister in Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Bernard Drake
Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff
Lord Drummond
Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Morag Duff
Prime Minister in the works of Kim Newman
Felix Durrell
Prime Minister in Secret State
Played By: Rupert Graves
John Eaton
Prime Minister in The Lords' Day (2009–2012)
Party: Conservative
Dominic "Dom" Edge
Prime Minister in First Lady
David Edwards
Prime Minister in The Royals
Played by David Broughton-Davies
Sir Edward Ferrier
Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Augean Stables" by Agatha Christie
Charles Flyte
Prime Minister in: Secret State
Played By: Tobias Menzies
Freya Gardner
Prime Minister in The Politician's Husband
Played By: Emily Watson
Mr Geraldine
Prime Minister in: A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan
Raymond Gould
Prime Minister in: First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer, in the British edition of the book and the Granada Television adaptation.
Maureen Graty
Played by: Pamela Salem
Prime Minister in The West Wing (television series)
Brian Green
Played by Nicholas Farrell
Prime Minister in Torchwood series three: Children of Earth
Joseph Green (MP for Hartley Dale, Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar Standards in Exported Confectionery)
Played by: David Verrey
Acting Prime Minister in: Doctor Who: "World War Three"
Real name: Jocrassa Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen
Mr Gresham
Prime Minister in Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Jim Hacker
Played by: Paul Eddington
Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television), succeeding Herbert Attwell (above)
Jeffrey Hale
Prime Minister in: King Ralph
Played by: James Villiers
James Halstead
Prime Minister in: A Planet for the President by Alistair Beaton
John Hammett
Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Augean Stables" by Agatha Christie
John Hatcher
Prime Minister in: Doomsday
Played by: Alexander Siddig
Bill Hawks
Prime Minister in: Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.
Severus L. Heppenstall
Prime Minister in: the Inspector French novel "Death of a Train" by Freeman Wills Crofts
Sir Timothy Hobson
Prime Minister in: The Guardians (television)
Played by Cyril Luckham
Sir Joseph Humboldt
Prime Minister in: Prisoner of Fire by Edmund Cooper
Mr Hunberly
Prime Minister in: the Hercule Poirot short story "The Incredible Theft" by Agatha Christie
Tom Hutchinson
Played by: Ronald Fraser
Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
George Hyde
Prime Minister in: The Dark Red Star by Ivan Ruff
Sir James Jaspers
Prime Minister in: the Marvel Universe comic-book continuity
Harriet Jones (MP for Flydale North)
Played by Penelope Wilton
Prime Minister in Doctor Who: "The Christmas Invasion"
Iorwerth Jones
Prime Minister in Nevil Shute's novel In the Wet
Yorrick Kaine
Prime Minister in Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Simon Kerslake
Elected Prime Minister of Britain in the alternate ending version of the book First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
Adam Lang
Prime Minister in: The Ghost by Robert Harris
Based on Tony Blair
Charles Lenton
Prime Minister in: Corridors of Power by C. P. Snow
Charlie Lynton
Prime Minister in the novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove
Arthur Lytton
Played by: Ronald Adam
Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
David MacAdam
Played by Henry Moxton (Granada adaptation)
Prime Minister in the Hercule Poirot short stories "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" and "The Submarine Plans" by Agatha Christie
Tom Makepeace
Prime Minister in The Final Cut
Played by Paul Freeman
The Marquess of Malvern
Prime Minister in Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux
David Marchant
Prime Minister in Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder by Peter F. Hamilton
Mr Melmount
Prime Minister in In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
Lord Merivale
Prime Minister in "The Fad of the Fisherman", short story in The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
William Mildmay
Prime Minister in Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Joshua Monk
Played by Bryan Pringle (The Pallisers, BBC Television)
Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Gloria Munday
Prime Minister in Dan Dare graphic novel (1990) by Grant Morrison
The Duke of Omnium (Plantagenet Palliser)
Played by Philip Latham (The Pallisers, BBC Television)
Prime Minister in: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volumes One and Two by Alan Moore
Gerald O'Brien
Prime Minister in: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore
Character originally from 1984 by George Orwell
Walter Outrage, OM
Prime Minister in: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Harry Perkins (Harold Clement Perkins)
Played by: Ray McAnally
Prime Minister in: A Very British Coup (television and novel)
Michael Phillips
Played by: Robert Bathurst
Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)
Kevin Pork (a.k.a. Superman)
Played by: Peter Jones
Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
Rosamund 'Ros' Jane Pritchard
Played by: Jane Horrocks
Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Pre-Skool Prime Minister
Prime Minister in Pre-Skool Prime Minister
Michael Rimmer
Played by: Peter Cook
Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Lord Ruthven
Prime Minister in: Anno Dracula and sequels by Kim Newman
Peter St. John
Prime Minister in: Zenith comic strip in 2000 AD
Harold Saxon (aka The Master)
Played by: John Simm
Prime Minister in Doctor Who: "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords", as part of the Saxon Party
Edward Shaw
played by John Shrapnel
Prime Minister in: The Palace
Henry Lyulph Holland, 1st Earl of Slane
Former Prime Minister in: All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
David Somerset
Prime Minister in: Alternities by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
The Right Honourable Sackville Somerset
Prime Minister in The Adventure of the Lost Holiday by August Derleth
Dr. Davenport Spry
Prime Minister in: Scarlet Traces: The Great Game by Ian Edginton
Michael Stevens
Played by: Anthony Head
Prime Minister in: Little Britain (television)
Adam Susan
Played by: John Hurt
Prime Minister in: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Sir Derrick Trant
Prime Minister in: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
Francis Urquhart
Played by: Ian Richardson (television series)
Prime Minister in: House of Cards trilogy by Michael Dobbs
a Conservative and the government chief whip, as he manoeuvres himself through blackmail and murder to the post of Prime Minister. In the television series, Urquhart is shot dead at the unveiling of the Margaret Thatcher memorial, having been Prime Minister for 4,228 days—one day longer than Thatcher.
Mr Waldemar
Prime Minister in: The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan
Thomas Waring
Prime Minister in: Avalon by Stephen R. Lawhead
General Sir Harold Wharton
Prime Minister in: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore
Character originally from the Billy Bunter stories of Charles Hamilton
Notes: An MI5 agent entered into the Labour Party, he was elected Prime Minister in the postwar elections after World War II and soon established the totalitarian Airstrip One government, gaining the popular nickname "Big Brother". He dies in 1952 and is replaced by Gerald O'Brien.
Joshua Wheaton
Prime Minister in The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton
Sidney Wilton
Prime Minister in: Endymion by the Earl of Beaconsfield
Michael Year
Prime Minister in: UNIT audio dramas The Longest Night and Snakehead.
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.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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 the Prime Minister 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 the 78-year-old David Lloyd George. Following Lloyd George's death in 1945, Beaverbrook became Prime Minister. He led a coalition government which consisted of the pro-Treaty factions of the Conservatives and Labour as well as the British Union of Fascists. In November 1952, Beaverbrook made an agreement to transport all British Jews to the Isle of Wight, which was under Nazi control, so that they could be sent to the concentration camps of Eastern Europe. In return, the Nazis allowed the UK greater freedom when it came to trading with the rest of Europe. He resigned in October 1953.
Tony Benn
Prime Minister in Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar
Gordon Brown
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.
Rab Butler
Prime Minister in Random Quest by John Wyndham
In a parallel universe in which World War II never happened, Butler was Prime Minister in 1954.
Lord Byron
Prime Minister in The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Sebastian Coe
Prime Minister in Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 by Andy Hamilton
Prime Minister in The Brittas Empire episode set in 2019
Harriet Harman
She was Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics and she subsequently is the first female Prime Minister. Her predecessor was Chris Patten.
David Lloyd George
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.
Roy Hattersley
In the Jeffrey Archer novel The Prodigal Daughter, Hattersley was the Prime Minister.
Denis Healey
Prime Minister in the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen and Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won"
David Irving
Prime Minister in The Mirage by Matt Ruff
In an alternate history where Israel was established in Germany, he is one of a number of European and North American leaders to call for Israel's destruction.
Sir Abraham Lincoln
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.
Iain Macleod
In Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel Alternities, Macleod is mentioned as having served as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1977.
Authorizes the secret deployment of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Britain.
Oswald Mosley
Prime Minister in various "Nazis win World War II" stories, e.g., the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Exodus and Harry Turtledove's novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies.
In Guy Walters's The Leader, Mosley has taken power as "The Leader" of Great Britain in 1937. King Edward VIII is still on the throne after his marriage, Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man, and Prime Minister Mosley is conspiring with Adolf Hitler about the fate of Britain's Jewish population.
In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, a secret pact between Charles Lindbergh who becomes President of the United States and Hitler includes an agreement to impose Mosley as the ruler of a German-occupied Britain with America's blessing after a ruse in which Lindbergh convinces Churchill to negotiate peace with Hitler, which deliberately fails — mirroring the dishonesty and repudiation of key Hitler-signed treaties, the Munich Conference Accord and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
In Kim Newman's The Bloody Red Baron, Mosley is shot down and killed in 1918 by Erich von Stalheim (from the Biggles series by W. E. Johns) and a character later comments that "a career has been ended before it was begun."
In the Elseworlds comic Superman: War of the Worlds, Mosley becomes Prime Minister after the defeat of the Martian invasion of 1938.
In the alternate history novel The Man Who Prevented WW2 by Roy Carter, Mosley became Prime Minister when the British Union of Fascists won the 1935 general election and remained in office until his death in March 1980. He forged an alliance with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan and went to war with the Irish Free State, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Greece. During the war with Greece, his government dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Salonika on 17 January 1941.
John Pardoe
Played by: himself
Prime Minister in Black Cinderella Two Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
Party: Liberal
Chris Patten
He was Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics. His predecessor was Peter Walker while his successor was Harriet Harman
John Prescott
Prime Minister in My Hero episode scene set 10 years in future (2015)
John Smith
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.
Margaret Thatcher
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."
Jeremy Thorpe
Mentioned as being the current Prime Minister in the Doctor Who story The Green Death.
Peter Walker
He is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher nor John Major entered politics. His predecessor was Denis Healey and his successor was Chris Patten.
Shirley Williams
Prime Minister in Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell
Sir Horace Wilson
In the alternate history novel Settling Accounts: In at the Death as part of the Southern Victory Series by Harry Turtledove, Sir Horace Wilson succeeds an authoritarian Winston Churchill in 1944 as acting Prime Minister, bringing a disastrous Second Great War against the German Empire to a conclusion.
In The War That Came Early, also by Harry Turtledove, World War II breaks out in 1938 over Czechoslovakia. In 1940, after the United Kingdom and France switch sides, and joins Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, Horace Wilson succeeds Neville Chamberlain in 1940, and imposes an increasingly authoritarian government. Wilson is finally overthrown by a military coup in 1941, and is held in protective custody, while Britain ends the war against the USSR and goes back to war against Germany.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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 the 78-year-old David Lloyd George.
In the alternate history novel For the Sake of England by Richard K. Burns in which Winston Churchill was born in New York City in 1874 when his mother Jennie Jerome left his father Lord Randolph Churchill and was elected President of the United States in 1936, Lord Halifax became Prime Minister in 1940 and signed a peace treaty with Nazi Germany after the Battle of France. However, Adolf Hitler betrayed Halifax and attacked the UK in 1941, leading the United States to enter the war.
In Stephen Baxter and Simon Bradshaw's short story "First to the Moon!", Halifax becomes Prime Minister in a timeline where Edward VIII remained king. Halifax was still Prime Minister in 1950, when the British – using captured Soviet rocket scientists under Sergei Korolev – launch the first manned Moon mission.
Due to the absence of full names, this list is ordered by available information.
First name "Jeremy"
Prime Minister in Doctor Who : "The Green Death"
Black male "Leroy"
Prime Minister in Strontium Dog stories in 2000 AD comic.
White Female
Played by: Faith Brook
Prime Minister in:North Sea Hijack (film, 1979)
Female
Prime Minister in Doctor Who : "Terror of the Zygons"
Black male
Played by: Don Warrington
President of Great Britain in Doctor Who : "Rise of the Cybermen"
White Male
Played by: Michael Gambon
Prime Minister in: Ali G Indahouse (film, 2002)
White Male
Played by: Robbie Coltrane
Prime Minister in Stormbreaker
White Male
Played by: Kevin McNally
Prime Minister in: Johnny English (film, 2003)
Male (unnamed but possibly John Major considering the chronology of the Harry Potter stories)
Prime Minister appearing in the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Two unnamed Earls, one succeeding the other
Prime Ministers in: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Unspecified gender
In Ian McEwan's The Child in Time.
White Female
Played by: Karen Taylor
Prime Minister 'The Brass Lady' in: Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor (comedy series)
