List of fictional British Prime Ministers
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Fictional stories featuring the political scene in Westminster or Whitehall in the United Kingdom, often feature fictional British Prime Ministers - 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.
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List of fictional Prime Ministers
- S. Baldrick
- Played by: Tony Robinson
- Prime Minister in: Blackadder: Back & Forth
- Party: Adder Party
- Lord Bellinger
- Played by: Harry Andrews (Granada adaptation)
- Prime Minister in The Adventure of the Second Stain
- Party: unspecified
- Alan B'Stard
- Played by: Rik Mayall
- Prime Minister (briefly) in The New Statesman
- Party: None (previously Conservative (later styles himself Lord Protector)
- David Keenan Berk
- Prime Minister in: Politics United Kingdom
- Party: Conservative
- Blocket
- Played by: George A. Cooper
- Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- Party: Labour
- Lord Brock
- Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington and Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Whig
- Notes: sits in the Commons, not the Lords
- Terry Brooks
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who:Option Lock by Justin Richards
- Party: unspecified
- Sir George Brown, Baronet
- Prime Minister in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: in office for less than a fortnight
- Sir Mortimer Chris
- Played by: Peter Cook
- Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (film, 1986)
- Party: Conservative
- Phillip Cotton
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who:Option Lock by Justin Richards
- Party: unspecified
- Mr Daubeny or Daubney
- Prime Minister in Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Conservative
- Notes: generally supposed to represent Benjamin Disraeli
- Lord de Terrier
- Prime Minister in Framley Parsonage and Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Conservative
- Lord Drummond
- Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Conservative
- Maureen Graty
- Played by: Pamela Salem
- Prime Minister in The West Wing (television series)
- Party: unspecified, presumably either Labour or Conservative
- Mr Gresham
- Prime Minister in Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Liberal
- Notes: generally supposed to represent William Ewart Gladstone
- Jim Hacker
- Played by: Paul Eddington
- Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television)
- Party: unspecified
- Tom Hutchinson
- Played by: Ronald Fraser
- Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- Party: Conservative
- Simon Kerslake
- Prime Minister in: First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
- Party: Conservative
- Charles Lenton
- Prime Minister in: Corridors of Power by C. P. Snow
- Party: Conservative
- Arthur Lytton
- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
- Party: Unknown
- William Mildmay
- Prime Minister in Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Whig
- Mr Monk
- Prime Minister in The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Liberal
- The Duke of Omnium (Plantagenet Palliser)
- Prime Minister in: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Coalition
- Walter Outrage, OM
- Prime Minister in: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- Party: unspecified
- Harry Perkins (Harold Clement Perkins)
- Played by: Ray McAnally
- Prime Minister in: A Very British Coup (television)
- Party: Labour
- Michael Phillips
- Played by: Robert Bathurst
- Prime Minister in: My Dad's the Prime Minister (television)
- Party: unspecified
- Kevin Pork (a. k. a. Superman)
- Played by: Peter Jones
- Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
- Party: Labour
- 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
- Prime Minister in: Anno Dracula and sequels by Kim Newman
- Party: Conservative
- Francis Urqhart
- Played by: Ian Richardson
- Prime Minister in: House of Cards trilogy
- Party: Conservative
- Thomas Waring
- Prime Minister in: Avalon by Stephen R. Lawhead
- Party: British Republic Party (fictional)
- Sidney Wilton
- Prime Minister in: Endymion by the Earl of Beaconsfield
- Party: Liberal
- Harriet Jones (MP for Flydale North)
- Future Prime Minister in: Doctor Who : "World War Three"
- Party: unspecified
Unnamed Prime Ministers
- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Zeppelin (film, 1971)
- Party: unknown
- Played by: Michael Gambon
- Prime Minister in: Ali G Indahouse (film, 2002)
- Party: unspecified
- First name "David"
- Played by: Hugh Grant
- Prime Minister in:Love Actually (film, 2003)
- Party: unspecified
- Played by: Anthony Stewart Head
- Prime Minister in: Little Britain (television)
- Party: unspecified, presumably Labour as he and his cabinet bear red rosettes on Election Night. Based loosely on Tony Blair.
- two unnamed Earls, one succeeding the other
- Prime Ministers in: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Whig and Conservative, respectively
- 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)
- Female Prime Minister (unnamed)
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who : "Terror of the Zygons"
- Party: unspecified, probably intended as a reference to the Conservative Margaret Thatcher implying that story was set in near future (later stories contradict this)
Fictional Prime Ministers who are 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.
- Sebastian Coe
- Prime Minister in Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 by Andy Hamilton
- Party: "A rainbow coalition of the Conservatives, the Pensioners' Power Party, the BNP and the Keep Sunday Special Party."
- Oswald Mosley
- Prime Minister in various "Nazis win World War II" stories, e.g. the Doctor Who novel Timewyrm: Genesis
- Party: British Union of Fascists
- John Pardoe
- Prime Minister in Black Cinderella II Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
- Party: Liberal