List of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Appearance
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.
List of fictional Prime Ministers
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- S. Baldrick
- Played by: Tony Robinson
- Prime Minister in: Blackadder Back And Forth
- Party: unspecified
- Blocket
- Played by: George A. Cooper
- Prime Minister in: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
- Party: Labour
- Terry Brooks
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who:Option Lock by Justin Richards
- Party: unspecified
- 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
- Jim Hacker
- Played by: Paul Eddington
- Prime Minister in: Yes, Prime Minister (television)
- Party: unspecified (but presumed to be Conservative)
- 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
- Arthur Lytton
- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Seven Days to Noon (film, 1950)
- Party: Unknown
- Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium
- Prime Minister in: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
- Party: Whig
- 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
- Played by: Peter Jones
- Prime Minister in: Whoops Apocalypse (television, 1982)
- Party: Conservative
- 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
- 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
Unnamed Prime Ministers
- Played by: Ronald Adam
- Prime Minister in: Zeppelin (film, 1971)
- Party: unknown
- 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
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."
- Jeremy Thorpe
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who and Black Cinderella II Goes East (a BBC Radio 4 pantomime by Douglas Adams)
- Party: Liberal
- Shirley Williams
- Prime Minister in Doctor Who
- Party: unspecified, presumably Labour or SDP