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The portrayals of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom have been either completely fictional figures, or composite figures based on real-life people, or real-life figures who have never been prime minister other than in fiction.

List of fictional prime ministers

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Real people on this list are marked:†

Work Prime Minister Medium Year(s) Actor Notes References
24: Live Another Day Alastair Davies Television 2014 Stephen Fry Composite of David Cameron and Boris Johnson [1][2]
31 North 62 East John Hammond Film 2009 John Rhys-Davies
A Very British Coup Thomas Andrews Novel 1982 N/A Harry Perkins' predecessor as prime minister, Andrews was the head of a Conservative-SDP Government of National Unity which suffered a landslide defeat to Labour in the 1989 general election. Thereafter, Andrews served as the Leader of the Opposition.
Harry Perkins N/A Being the target of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Civil Service, the General Staff, newspaper magnate Sir George Fison, and the United States to undermine his radical policy agenda, Perkins is ultimately forced to resign after a meltdown at a nuclear power station whose creation he supported as Secretary of State for the Public Sector. He represented the Sheffield Central constituency. The sequel novel The Friends of Harry Perkins, published in 2019 and set forty years after the events of A Very British Coup, opens with Harry Perkins' funeral. [3]
Lawrence Wainwright N/A Initially serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Wainwright was a co-conspirator in a plot to remove Harry Perkins as prime minister and stymie his legislative agenda, hoping to become prime minister himself as a result after losing out on becoming Labour leader due to an electoral college system. After Perkins' resignation, Wainwright was elected leader by a majority of Labour MPs whilst Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House Jock Steeples was declared acting leader by the Labour Party National Executive. Wainwright was appointed prime minister at the intervention of DI5. After replacing the entire Cabinet (with Steeples turning down a minor position), Wainwright abandoned Perkins' policies not already implemented, including British withdrawal from NATO, nuclear disarmament, withdrawal from the Common Market, and the dissolution of newspaper monopolies. In The Friends of Harry Perkins, it was revealed that he served for only two years before Labour fell from power.
A Very British Coup Thomas Andrews Television 1988 Roger Brierley Andrews led a Conservative majority government to a landslide defeat in the 1991 general election following a banking sector crisis brought about by revelations of misconduct uncovered by Labour leader Harry Perkins. Andrews thereafter served as Leader of the Opposition. He was mentioned as representing the Surrey East constituency, and likely succeeded Margaret Thatcher (who was mentioned by Perkins as a former prime minister).
Harry Perkins Ray McAnally Following much of the plot of the novel, albeit opposed to nuclear power, Perkins is presented with forged evidence of financial irregularity suggesting that he accepted £300,000 from the Soviet government as part of loan negotiations with the International State Bank of Moscow, implicating his former lover Helen Jarvis. With Fison's newspapers falsely speculating on Perkins' health and suggesting overwhelming public support for Perkins's former chancellor Lawrence Wainwright (a co-conspirator) as prime minister, he uses a live national broadcast intended for the announcement of his resignation on grounds of ill health to reveal the blackmail conspiracy and to call an early general election. On Election Day morning, it is implied that a military coup has begun. He represented the Sheffield Central constituency.
Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny Mrs Hardinge Novel 1889 N/A Imperial prime minister of a federated British Empire. [4]
Lady Cairo N/A Imperial prime minister of a federated British Empire, succeeding Mrs Hardinge. [5]
Black Doves Richard Eaves Television 2024 Adeel Akhtar
Black Mirror Michael Callow Television 2011 Rory Kinnear Episode: "The National Anthem". [1][2][6]
Blackadder: Back & Forth Baldrick Short film 1999 Tony Robinson After accidentally constructing a working time machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci so that his master Lord Blackadder could win £30,000 in a New Year's prank-cum-bet, Baldrick became the puppet prime minister to Edmund III of the United Kingdom after they used the time machine to manipulate history for their benefit. [1][3]
Bleak Expectations Gladraeli Clampvulture Radio 2012 Geoffrey Whitehead In the Series 5 finale "A Loved-Up Life Potentially Totally Annihilated", he refused to assist Pip Bin in foiling Mr Benevolent's plan to destroy the universe, even after the disappearance of several towns (as none were in constituencies controlled by his party). Considering re-election to be his first priority, he agreed to help only after learning that saving the universe would be a "huge vote winner", albeit deploying an ineffective one-man British Isles Defence Force. He dies after an enraged Pip throws him into Benevolent's Universe Destroying Device (one of many bizarre and violent deaths suffered by members of the Clampvulture family). Clampvulture's unfulfilled campaign promises included votes for horses and free jam. [3]
Bodyguard John Vosler Television 2018 David Westhead Forced to resign after a kompromat originally given to Home Secretary Julia Montague was leaked following her assassination.
Cobra Robert Sutherland Television 2020 Robert Carlyle Sutherland oversees response efforts following power outages caused by a solar flare, and has to deal with a resultant blockade of Northumberland and the drug overdose death of his daughter Ellie's best friend, which she caused. After his Home Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan attempts to orchestrate a vote of no confidence against him, he calls a general election, which he wins with a reduced majority of nine MPs. He has to contend with the aftermath of an explosion on a sunken Second World War ammunition ship and subsequent Russian cyber attacks. [7]
Doctor Who Harriet Jones Television 2005 Penelope Wilton Episode: "The Christmas Invasion". Originally introduced as a backbench MP in the two-part story "Aliens of London" / "World War Three", the Doctor states that she would serve as a successful three-term prime minister with her premiership being regarded as a golden age, but he instigates a vote of no confidence against her as revenge for her ordering the destruction of the retreating Sycorax ship.
Harold Saxon 2007 John Simm Episode: "The Sound of Drums". Alias of The Master, an evil Time Lord and one of the Doctor's archenemies. [1]
Jo Patterson 2021 Harriet Walter Episode: "Revolution of the Daleks": The Technology Secretary who won a leadership election and announced a rollout of Security Droids built from Daleks. However, she was immediately exterminated by a Dalek outside No.10 Downing Street. [8]
Roger ap Gwilliam 2024 Aneurin Barnard Episode: "73 Yards". Elected in 2046 as the head of the nationalist Albion Party. Oversaw the UK's withdrawal from NATO and becoming an independent nuclear power after negotiating with Pakistan to purchase its entire nuclear arsenal. Later, his ministry oversaw the implementation of compulsory DNA testing and collation into a National Database. After an interdimensional intervention, he is succeeded as Prime Minister by his more liberal deputy Iris Cabriola.
Dominion Lord Halifax† Novel 2012 N/A Lord Halifax succeeds Neville Chamberlain in May 1940 instead of Winston Churchill, and it is under Halifax's premiership that Britain agrees to an armistice with Nazi Germany that leads to Britain becoming a Nazi satellite state.
Lord Beaverbrook† N/A As a result of Britain entering into an armistice with Germany in 1940, Lord Beaverbrook served as Prime Minister in 1952, heading a collaborationist puppet government that came to power following a possibly fraudulent general election in 1950. His newspapers form part of the propaganda machine of this government. [9]
Doomsday John Hatcher Film 2008 Alexander Siddig [10]
Endymion Sidney Wilton Novel 1880 N/A A promiment Whig Cabinet member who employs Endymion Ferrars as a favour to the latter's sister; eventually becomes Prime Minister when the Whigs are voted in, and later resigns in Ferrars' favour. [11]
Endymion Ferrars N/A A clerk at Somerset House and son of a failed Tory politician, Ferrars rises through the Whig party to be Secretary of State and succeeds Sidney Wilton as Prime Minister after Wilton's resignation. [12]
First Among Equals Lord Broadstairs Novel 1984 N/A The unidentified prime minister who led Labour to a narrow general election victory in 1989 following a short-lived, ineffective Conservative minority government during Margaret Thatcher's third tenure as prime minister. Due to drastic cardiac surgery, he was forced to stand down as Labour leader in 1991 in favour of his deputy and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Raymond Gould; however, he continued to serve as prime minister until that year's general election. His departure from office coincided with the abdication of Elizabeth II. Lord Broadstairs is his post-prime-ministerial title.
Raymond Gould N/A In the UK edition of the novel, following the extremely close 1991 general election, Charles III informs Conservative leader Simon Kerslake that he intends to make Labour leader Raymond Gould his first prime minister. Gould had to enter into a coalition agreement with the SDP, which included holding a referendum on proportional representation.
Simon Kerslake N/A In the US edition of the novel, following the extremely close 1991 general election, Charles III informs Labour leader Raymond Gould that he intends to make Conservative leader Simon Kerslake his first prime minister. Kerslake's character is likely analogous with the novel's author, Jeffrey Archer.
Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900 Hector d'Estrange Novel 1890 N/A Character is a pseudonym of Gloria De Lara [13][14]
Heads of State Samuel Clarke Film 2025 Idris Elba First Black British Prime Minister. In his sixth year in office at the start of the film. Born into a low income family in London, he worked three jobs to be able to attend Cambridge University. After graduating, served for several years in the British Army, and after an honourable discharge briefly worked as a community organizer before becoming a military attaché. He was then elected as a Member of Parliament and worked his way up to eventually becoming Prime Minister. Survives an assassination attempt alongside US President John Derringer, as a part of a conspiracy organised by US Vice President Elizabeth Kirk and Russian arms dealer Viktor Gradov to destabilise NATO.
Henry IX Gwen Oxlade Television 2017 Pippa Haywood The incumbent prime minister when King Henry IX announces his intention to abdicate in coincidence with his Silver Jubilee. [15]
House of Cards Henry "Hal" Collingridge Television 1990 David Lyon Succeeding Margaret Thatcher as Conservative leader and prime minister, Collingridge leads his party to victory at the next general election albeit with a reduced majority. Citing the 'Night of the Long Knives' as precedent, Collingridge decides not to reshuffle his Cabinet. Being passed over for a promotion to the Home Office as a result, Government Chief Whip Francis Urquhart plots to replace him as prime minister out of revenge by fabricating a scandal involving Collridge's alcoholic brother and insider trading. In an ironic twist, Collingridge offers to support Urquhart's leadership bid.
King Charles III Tristan Evans Film 2017 Adam James A constitutional crisis ensues over the King's refusal to grant royal assent to a statutory press regulation bill which could allow the government to censor the news and prevent the uncovering of genuine abuses of power. [16]
Late Night Mash Keith Price Television 2022 Josh Pugh During a Newsdeck report, it was announced that due to difficulties in appointing a long-term prime minister members of the public were to be randomly selected to serve in the role for two week tenures, similar to jury service. During a press conference Keith Price, formerly a plumber from Cambridge and the first prime minister appointed under the new system, announced his policies of banning strawberries (as his wife was allergic), prohibiting non-regular customers at the Merchant's Arms pub in Cambridge from sitting at the bar, pursuing a Moon mission, and bombing France. [17]
Little Britain Michael Stevens Television 2003 Anthony Head Based on Tony Blair, he is the object of aide Sebastian Love's affection. [6][3]
Robert 2005 Matt Lucas The Chancellor of the Exchequer and successor to Michael Stevens. He is based on Gordon Brown.
Little Britain USA Sebastian Love Television 2008 David Walliams Formerly an aide to Michael Stevens, Sebastian Love's affections have been transferred to the new American president. Love is a parody of Peter Mandelson.
London Has Fallen Leighton Clarkson Film 2016 Guy Williams [18]
Love Actually David Film 2003 Hugh Grant [1][2][19][6][20]
Marvel Universe James Jasper Comics 1983–present N/A Character in Marvel Universe [3][2]
Mr Stink Dave TV film 2012 David Walliams Walliams is the author of the original novel [21]
My Dad's the Prime Minister Michael Phillips Television 2003–2004 Robert Bathurst [22]
No Love for Johnnie Reginald Stevens Novel 1959 N/A [3][1]
No Love for Johnnie Film 1961 Geoffrey Keen
Noughts + Crosses Opal Falomi Television 2020 Rakie Ayola In an alternate timeline where Europe was colonised by several African nations, Opal Falomi is the prime minister of Albion, a self-governing colony of the Aprican Empire where racial segregation between Crosses and Noughts is rigidly enforced.
Party's Over Henry Tobin Radio 2019 Miles Jupp Tobin is a former prime minister whose disastrous eight-month premiership ended following a landslide defeat to the Opposition, the loss of his own seat in a snap general election, and his own unceremonious removal as party leader (later episodes imply that he lost a vote of no confidence and his party has remained in government). It is suggested he was a Conservative, having succeeded David Cameron and Theresa May and mentioned several Conservative ministers as former colleagues. [23]
Passport to Pimlico Arthur Pemberton Film 1949 Stanley Holloway Originally a shopkeeper in Miramont Gardens, Pimlico. After it is discovered that his neighbourhood is still technically part of the defunct Duchy of Burgundy, he is appointed prime minister after a descendent of the last known duke asserts his claim and forms a privy council, with its meetings taking place in his shop. Forced to contend with strained British-Burgundian relations, owing to Burgundy becoming a safe haven for black marketeers, he ceases to be prime minister once the micro-nation is reunited with Britain.
Phineas Redux Mr Daubney Novel 1873 N/A [24][25]
Mr Gresham N/A [24]
Red Election Adam Cornwell Television 2021 James D'Arcy [26]
Roadkill Dawn Ellison Television 2020 Helen McCrory Predecessor to Peter Laurence, whose resignation cleared the way for Laurence to take over.
Peter Laurence Hugh Laurie Previously the transport secretary and the justice secretary, he was appointed to the latter position amidst prison rioting in a bid to undermine his popularity. Laurence was embroiled in numerous scandals, including two extramarital affairs, a love child, his daughter Susan being photographed taking cocaine, culpability in the deaths of several tenants in properties that he owned, and often contradicted government policy publicly, such as supporting the decriminalisation of drugs and questioning the imprisonment of non-violent offenders. He was being investigated by journalist Charmian Pepper, against whom he had won a libel case, for his involvement with an American think tank which sought to privatise the National Health Service; this came to a halt following Pepper's death during a suspicious traffic collision. Becoming prime minister following Ellison's resignation, Laurence's premiership was immediately jeopardised after his wife Helen's refusal to liquidate a shell company opened under her name.
Secret State Charles Flyte Television 2012 Tobias Menzies The British prime minister, who dies in a suspicious plane crash while returning from the United States.
Tom Dawkins Gabriel Byrne Formerly the deputy prime minister to Charles Flyte, he succeeded Flyte after the latter's death. After discovering a plot to engineer a war against Iran, he calls a vote of no confidence against his own government. [27]
Settling Accounts: In at the Death Horace Wilson† Novel 2007 N/A In an alternate timeline in which the Confederate States won the War of Secession over the United States, the Second Great War (1941-1944) in Europe witnesses the destruction of London, Norwich and Brighton (alongside Paris and Petrograd) by German superbombs. After the ousting of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chancellor of the Exchequer Oswald Mosley, Horace Wilson was installed as a caretaker prime minister tasked with negotiating peace with the victorious Central Powers.
Seven Days to Noon Arthur Lytton Film 1950 Ronald Adam [18][20]
Sherlock Holmes Lord Bellinger Television 1951 J.Leslie Frith Episode: "The Second Stain"
Sherlock Holmes 1968 Cecil Parker
The Adventure of the Second Stain Short story 1904 N/A Collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes [28]
The Afrika Reich Lord Halifax† Novel 2011 N/A [29]
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Rosamund Pritchard Television 2006 Jane Horrocks Originally a supermarket manager from Eatanswill, Yorkshire, she decided to stand as an independent parliamentary candidate out of anger at the state of British politics. After gauging the extent of dissatisfaction she formed the Purple Alliance, a third-way party whose members were formerly Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and Labour and were predominantly female. Promising never to deceive voters, her policies including moving Parliament to Bradford, "Green Wednesday", during which car use would be banned (which she decided upon spontaneously), and promising to subject EU legislation to greater parliamentary scrutiny (after a Lithuanian plane crashes over Walthamstow). [2][30]
The Difference Engine Lord Byron † Novel 1990 N/A A member of the Industrial Radical Party, which was formed following Charles Babbage's successful development of a working Analytical Engine and the early arrival of the Information Revolution. Lord Byron became prime minister in 1831 following the Duke of Wellington's unsuccessful coup d'etat to keep the Tory government in power and subsequent assassination. Byron died in office in 1855 amidst rioting during the Great Stink. [31]
Isambard Kingdom Brunel† 1990 N/A A member of the Industrial Radical Party, which was formed following Charles Babbage's successful development of a working Analytical Engine and the early arrival of the Information Revolution, Brunel succeeded Lord Byron following his death in 1855. [31]
The Diplomat Nicol Trowbridge Television 2023 Rory Kinnear [32]
The Final Cut Francis Urquhart Novel 1995 N/A
Maxwell Stanbrook N/A Formerly the Environment Secretary, tasked with prohibiting the erection of a statue in honour of Margaret Thatcher, Stanbrook succeeded Francis Urquhart following his (elective) assassination and went on to win a landslide majority in Parliament due to public sympathy. Stanbrook was Jewish and of dubious parentage.
The Final Cut Francis Urquhart Television 1995 Ian Richardson [18]
Tom Makepeace Paul Freeman Formerly the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Makepeace was fired from the Cabinet following a dispute over Urquhart's proposal of a single language for Europe. Refusing offers of demotion to Education Secretary, Makepeace began attacking Urquhart from the opposition benches and challenges him for leadership after a disastrous attempt to rally support by stirring up conflict in Cyprus. Initially planning to discredit Urquhart by leaking a tape proving his role in the death of journalist Mattie Storin, Urquhart's assassination on the day he surpassed Thatcher's time in office allows Makepeace to succeed him unopposed.
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Lord Bellinger Film 1922 Cecil Ward
The Ghost Writer Adam Lang Film 2010 Pierce Brosnan Based on Tony Blair [2][19]
The Kidnapped Prime Minister David MacAdam Short story 1923 N/A Collected in Poirot Investigates [33]
The Leader Oswald Mosley† Novel 2003 [34]
The Madagaskar Plan Lord Halifax† Novel 2015 N/A
The New Statesman Alan B'Stard Television 1992 Rik Mayall In the final episode "The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard", a special general election is called over British membership of the European Economic Community. Alan B'Stard, as leader of the Eurosceptic New Patriotic Party, became an extra-parliamentary prime minister, having not contested a seat and having threatened to use his party's mandate to become a dictatorial Lord Protector (after his deputy leader Paddy O'Rourke suggested that he rather than B'Stard would become prime minister as a result). [1][2]
The Palace Edward Shaw Television 2008 John Shrapnel The incumbent prime minister at the time of King James III's death, the newly-ascended Richard IV has an affair with his married press officer and he and the new king argue over cuts in defence spending.
The Politician's Husband Freya Gardner Television 2013 Emily Watson Formerly the Minister of State for Transport and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, she became prime minister following her husband Aiden Hoynes's abortive leadership bid. With their marriage undermined by political scheming, public scandal, and unfounded suspicions that she was cheating on him with Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and leadership rival Bruce Babbish, they decide to remain married for political purposes, with Hoynes serving as Gardner's deputy prime minister.
The Prime Minister Duke of Omnium Novel 1876 N/A [35]
The Queen and I Jack Barker Novel 1992 N/A Barker is the leader of the People's Republican Party and won the 1992 election through subliminal messaging organised by the television technicians' union. He abolishes the monarchy and forces the Royal Family to live on a council estate. However, due to fulfilling expensive campaign promises such as raising pensions and renewing schools, Barker announced that Britain was to become part of Japan (with himself as Governor General) in exchange for the suspension of debt repayments, with Prince Edward having to marry the Emperor's daughter as part of the agreement. At the conclusion, the story is revealed to have been a nightmare, with the Conservatives under John Major winning re-election (as in real-life).
The Queen and I Television 2018 David Walliams
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Lord Bellinger Television 1986 Harry Andrews Episode: "The Second Stain"
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Michael Rimmer Film 1970 Peter Cook Based on David Frost. Formerly a pollster and Conservative Party advisor, Rimmer became prime minister after murdering his predecessor, Tom Hutchinson. Rimmer gained dictatorial powers in a referendum after generating extreme levels of voter apathy by requiring the electorate to engage in constant postal voting and televoting on trivial or complex matters. [36]
Tom Hutchinson Ronald Fraser The leader of the Conservatives, Hutchinson follows the advice of advisor-turned-MP Michael Rimmer which he gives in pursuit of his own ulterior ambitions. Hutchinson is murdered by Rimmer by being pushed off an oil rig, who then succeeds him as prime minister. [36]
The Thick of It Tom Davis Television 2007-2009 N/A Formerly the Transport Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, he became prime minister after his predecessor's legacy programme is leaked. He would go on to lose the 2010 general election following rumours that he suffers from mentalillness and is dependant on anti-depressants. A parody of Gordon Brown, Davis is unseen throughout the series.
JB 2012 N/A The young, inexperienced prime minister of a Coalition government that took power following Tom Davis' loss of the 2010 general election and instigated austerity measures. His youth and determination to modernise the party irritate some of its longer-standing members, who looks down on JB and his "Eton clique". A parody of David Cameron, JB - like Tom Davis before him - is unseen in the series.
The Third World War: The Untold Story Mrs Plumber Novel 1978 N/A Based on Margaret Thatcher [37][38]
The War That Came Early Horace Wilson† Novel series 2009-2014 N/A In an alternate timeline in which the Second World War began in 1938 due to the assassination of Konrad Henlein by a Czech nationalist, Horace Wilson succeeded Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in 1940 (Winston Churchill having been killed by a drink-driver). As a result of his increasingly anti-democratic leadership, a relatively bloodless military coup occurred in 1941 resulting in Wilson and his Cabinet being placed in preventative detention and replaced by a military junta which respected civil liberties and voices of dissent out of expediency.
The West Wing Maureen Graty Television 2005 Pamela Salem Maureen Graty was the prime minister of the United Kingdom in 2005-2006. She deployed UK troops towards President Josiah Bartlet's Middle East peacekeeping plan in 2005 under the command of British General Whitehead. President Bartlet commented that "when she mulls, it’s trouble".
To Play the King Francis Urquhart Novel 1993 N/A After the newly crowned king criticises many of Urquhart's policies and establishes himself as an unofficial Leader of the Opposition, Urquhart wins a majority in a snap general election, thus forcing the king to abdicate in favour of his son. [39]
Television Ian Richardson
Torchwood: Children of Earth Brian Green Television 2009 Nicholas Farrell [40]
Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor Karen Television 2008 Karen Taylor A "Junior Minister catapulted to power" following the deaths of most of the Cabinet due to cat flu. She does not take the job very seriously.
V for Vendetta Adam Susan Graphic novel 1982–1985 N/A A former police chief constable, he and the Norsefire Party rose to power by exploiting poverty, chaos, and panic following a worldwide nuclear war whereafter he adopted the title of Leader. A lifelong virgin and possibly repressed homosexual, Susan falls in love with the super-computer Fate after the anarchistic terrorist V manipulated it to express the emotion of love to drive Susan insane. He was assassinated by Rose Almond, widow of the head of "The Finger" Derek Almond, resulting in his lieutenants killing each other to become Leader.
V for Vendetta Adam Sutler Film 2006 John Hurt Based on Adam Susan from the original comic series. Formerly the Conservative Under-Secretary of Defence, he founded the Norsefire Party, whose supporters developed the St Mary's virus and corresponding cure, using them to perpetrate false flag attacks and win a general election, becoming personally wealthy. Sutler held the title of High Chancellor following the establishment of the Norsefire dictatorship. In exchange for the surrender of the anarchistic terrorist V, Sutler is kidnapped and executed by Creedy, the leader of the Finger (the military police). [19]
Whoops Apocalypse Sir Mortimer Chris Film 1986 Peter Cook [19][20]
Years and Years Vivienne Rook Television 2019 Emma Thompson The leader of the far-right, populist Four Star Party (named after her tactic of swearing on pre-watershed television to appeal to disaffected voters). She was the first incumbent prime minister to be arrested, charged with murder and conspiracy to murder for the establishment of so-called 'Erstwhile Sites' for the detainment of asylum seekers and economic migrants. Although incarcerated, it is implied that she escaped with the aid of powerful sponsors and was replaced with a double. [41]
Yes Minister Herbert Attwell Television 1980–1984 N/A The unnamed and unseen prime minister throughout the original series, he is mentioned by name only in companion books for the series (his name being a portmanteau of three real prime ministers: Herbert H. Asquith, Clement Attlee and Arthur Wellesley). Attwell appointed Jim Hacker as minister for administrative affairs upon becoming prime minister in "Open Government", principally as an act of revenge against Hacker for managing his rival's leadership campaign. In "Party Games", he unexpectedly retired after his home secretary and deputy was forced to resign following a spectacular drink-driving incident; Hacker surmised that Attwell held on to the premiership only to deny it to his then likely successor. Spending his retirement writing his memoirs, Attwell's sudden death in the Yes, Prime Minister episode "A Diplomatic Incident" saw his state funeral serve as an unofficial summit, during which Hacker discussed the terms of joint British-French management of the Channel Tunnel with the French president.
Yes, Prime Minister Jim Hacker Television 1986–1988 Paul Eddington Previously the minister for administrative affairs and party chairman, Hacker became prime minister in "Party Games" after the surprise retirement of his predecessor. Hacker positioned himself as a moderate candidate after learning that the foreign secretary and chancellor of the Exchequer (the likely successors following the home secretary's resignation due to drink-driving) both posed serious security risks. In companion books written as published diary entries, Hacker ceased being prime minister after leading his party to defeat at the next general election. [1][6][3]
Yes, Prime Minister Television 2013 David Haig Depicted as the leader of a coalition government during the Eurozone crisis, the series revolves around his efforts to secure a multi-trillion dollar interest-free loan from Kumranistan as a solution.
Zenith Peter St. John Comics 1987–2000 N/A Formerly known as Mandala, a member of the now-disbanded superhero team Cloud 9. [3]

Unnamed prime ministers

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Below is a list of works in which a Prime Minister appears, but does not receive a name.

Work Medium Year(s) Actor Notes References
Agatha Christie's Poirot Television 1990 Henry Moxon Episode: "The Kidnapped Prime Minister" [42]
Ali G Indahouse Film 2002 Michael Gambon
Carry On Emmannuelle Film 1978 Robert Dorning [20]
Damage Film 1992 Tony Doyle [20]
Heavens Above! Film 1963 Colin Gordon [20]
Ice Television 2011 Simon Callow
Lifeforce Film 1985 Peter Porteous [20]
Johnny English Film 2003 Kevin McNally
Johnny English Reborn Film 2011 Stephen Campbell Moore
Mr Stink Novel 2009 N/A [43]
North Sea Hijack Film 1980 Faith Brook [20]
Percy's Progress Film 1974 Harry H. Corbett [20]
Random Harvest Film 1942 Edward Fielding [20]
Stormbreaker Novel 2000 N/A [44]
Stormbreaker Film 2006 Robbie Coltrane [20]
The Tunnel Film 1935 George Arliss [20]
Water Film 1985 Maureen Lipman [20]

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