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

• 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 Grady
  • 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

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

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."

• Denis Healey
  • Prime Minister in 1987 graphic novel Watchmen
  • Party: unspecified, presumably Labour

• 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

• Jeremy Thorpe
  • Prime Minister in Doctor Who
  • Party: Liberal

• Shirley Williams
  • Prime Minister in Doctor Who
  • Party: unspecified, presumably Labour or SDP

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• Fictional characters
• List of fictional governments
• President of Earth
• List of fictional political parties
• List of fictional U.S. Presidents
  • List of fictional U.S. Vice Presidents
  • List of fictional U.S. Presidential candidates
• List of fictional British monarchs
• List of fictional rulers
• List of other fictional politicans