List of Fictional Prime Ministers of The United Kingdom - Real People With A Fictional Premiership

Real People With A Fictional Premiership

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
• Party: unspecified, either leftist Labour Party or Communist

Rab Butler

• Prime Minister in Random Quest by John Wyndham
• Party: Conservative
• Notes: 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
• Party: Industrial Radical Party, or the "Rads", developed from the Radicals.

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 British National Party and the Keep Sunday Special Party."
• Prime Minister in The Brittas Empire episode set in 2019
• Party: Conservatives

Harriet Harman

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter 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.

Roy Hattersley

Is Prime Minister in the Jeffrey Archer novel The Prodigal Daughter as mentioned by the main character Florentyna Kane.

Denis Healey

• Prime Minister in 1987 graphic novel Watchmen as well as Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won"
• Party: Presumably Labour

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.

Iain Macleod

• In Michael P. Kube-McDowell's 1988 novel, Macleod is mentioned as having served as Prime Minister from 1969 until 1977.
• Authorizes the secret deployment of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Britain.
• Party: Conservative

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.
• Party: British Union of Fascists

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

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter politics
• Follows Peter Walker and is succeeded by Harriet Harman

John Prescott

• Prime Minister in My Hero episode scene set 10 years in future (2015)
• Party: presumably Labour

Peter Walker

• Is Prime Minister in Kim Newman's short story "The Germans Won", where neither Margaret Thatcher or John Major enter politics
• Follows Denis Healey and is succeeded by Chris Patten

Shirley Williams

• Prime Minister in Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell
• Party: unspecified, presumably Labour or Social Democrat
• Presumably intended to be the female Prime Minister from Terror of the Zygons (see unnamed below)

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.