| Work | Prime minister | Medium | Year | Actor | Notes | References |
| 24: Live Another Day | Alastair Davies | Television | 2014 | Stephen Fry | Composite of David Cameron and Boris Johnson | |
| 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. | |
| A Very British Coup | Harry Perkins | Novel | 1982 | 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. | |
| A Very British Coup | Lawrence Wainwright | Novel | 1982 | 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, 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. | |
| A Very British Coup | Harry Perkins | Television | 1988 | 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 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. | |
| Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny | Lady Cairo | Novel | 1889 | N/A | Imperial prime minister of a federated British Empire, succeeding Mrs Hardinge. | |
| Back in the USSA | Enoch Powell | Novel | 1997 | N/A | Said to have succeeded Anthony Eden. He serves as PM from at least 1964 until at least 1972. | |
| Black Doves | Richard Eaves | Television | 2024 | Adeel Akhtar | | |
| Black Mirror | Michael Callow | Television | 2011 | Rory Kinnear | Episode: "The National Anthem". | |
| 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. | |
| 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. 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. Clampvulture's unfulfilled campaign promises included votes for horses and free jam. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Doctor Who | Harold Saxon | Television | 2007 | John Simm | Episode: "The Sound of Drums". Alias of The Master, an evil Time Lord and one of the Doctor's archenemies. | |
| Doctor Who | Jo Patterson | Television | 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. | |
| Doctor Who | Roger ap Gwilliam | Television | 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. | |
| Dominion | Lord Beaverbrook | Novel | 2012 | 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. | |
| Doomsday | John Hatcher | Film | 2008 | Alexander Siddig | After being ravaged by the Reaper virus, Scotland is isolated from the rest of Britain by a 30ft wall in 2008. When cases of Reaper virus are diagnosed in London in 2035, Hatcher assembles a medical team to discover a possible vaccination after satellite imagery detects survivors on the other side of the wall. As the Reaper epidemic grows Hatcher plans to evacuate the city, but is infected during a botched assassination attempt and later ousted by conniving adviser Michael Canaris. Hatcher eventually commits suicide rather than dying of the virus. | |
| Endymion | Sidney Wilton | Novel | 1880 | N/A | A prominent 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. | |
| Endymion | Endymion Ferrars | Novel | 1880 | 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. | |
| 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. | |
| First Among Equals | Raymond Gould | Novel | 1984 | 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. | |
| First Among Equals | Simon Kerslake | Novel | 1984 | 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 | |
| Heads of State | Samuel Clarke | Film | 2025 | Idris Elba | First Black British prime minister in his sixth year of premiership. A working-class graduate of Cambridge University and veteran of the British Army, he survives an assassination attempt alongside US president John Derringer as a part of a conspiracy organised by 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. | |
| Hostage | Abigail Dalton | Television | 2025 | Suranne Jones | Formerly a junior minister in the Foreign Office, Dalton's premiership is marred by military spending cuts and a lack of vital NHS drugs, leading to negotiations with France for a consignment of medication. At the Foreign Office, Dalton had ordered the withdrawal British troops during a Guatemalan invasion of Belize that resulted in civilian deaths. A group of still-resentful former soldiers kidnap her husband during his work with Doctors Without Borders and try forcing her resignation in exchange for his release, before organizing acts of terrorism and orchestrating a mass assault of the Home Secretary when she refuses. Dalton arranges her husband's rescue with French president Vivienne Toussant ; after French military save him, the soldiers retaliate by murdering Dalton's father and placing a bomb in 10 Downing Street. A vote of no-confidence is passed on Dalton, believing she has become sidetracked. When the terrorists further target Dalton's family, she exposes the MoD general responsible, after which the motion of no-confidence is voided and she calls for a general election. | |
| Hostage | Dan Ogilvy | Television | 2025 | Pip Carter | Formerly the Defense Secretary, Ogilvy was appointed as interim prime minister by the Cabinet following a successful vote of no-confidence against Abigail Dalton. He responds to the bombing of 10 Downing Street by declaring a state of emergency, although he stands down in favour of Dalton after the MoD general behind the terrorist attacks is exposed and the vote if no-confidence is voided. | |
| 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. | |
| Late Night Mash | Keith Price | Television | 2022 | Josh Pugh | Due to difficulties in appointing a long-term prime minister, members of the public were randomly selected to serve in the role for two week tenures, similar to jury service. During a press conference Price, formerly a plumber from Cambridge, announced his policies of banning strawberries, prohibiting non-regular customers at the Merchant's Arms pub in Cambridge from sitting at the bar, pursuing a Moon mission, and bombing France. | |
| Little Britain | Michael Stevens | Television | 2003 | Anthony Head | Based on Tony Blair, he is the object of aide Sebastian Love's affection. | |
| Little Britain | Robert | Television | 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 | | |
| Love Actually | David | Film | 2003 | Hugh Grant | | |
| Marvel Universe | James Jasper | Comics | 1983–present | N/A | Character in Marvel Universe | |
| Mr Stink | Dave | TV film | 2012 | David Walliams | Walliams is the author of the original novel | |
| My Dad's the Prime Minister | Michael Phillips | Television | 2003–2004 | Robert Bathurst | | |
| No Love for Johnnie | Reginald Stevens | Novel | 1959 | N/A | | |
| No Love for Johnnie | Reginald Stevens | 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's disastrous eight-month premiership ended following a landslide defeat to the Opposition, the loss of his seat in a snap general election, and his unceremonious removal as party leader. It is suggested he was a Conservative, having succeeded David Cameron and Theresa May and mentioned several Conservative ministers as former colleagues. | |
| 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 | | |
| Phineas Redux | Mr Gresham | Novel | 1873 | N/A | | |
| Red Election | Adam Cornwell | Television | 2021 | James D'Arcy | | |
| Roadkill | Dawn Ellison | Television | 2020 | Helen McCrory | Predecessor to Peter Laurence, whose resignation cleared the way for Laurence to take over. | |
| Roadkill | Peter Laurence | Television | 2020 | Hugh Laurie | Previously the transport secretary and the justice secretary. 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. He was being investigated by journalist Charmian Pepper for his involvement with an American think tank seeking to privatise the NHS; this came to a halt following Pepper's death during a suspicious traffic collision. Laurence's premiership was jeopardised immediately, after his wife Helen refused 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. | |
| Secret State | Tom Dawkins | Television | 2012 | 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. | |
| 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 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 | | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Lord Bellinger | Television | 1951 | J.Leslie Frith | Episode: "The Second Stain" | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Lord Bellinger | Television | 1968 | Cecil Parker | Episode: "The Second Stain" | |
| The Adventure of the Second Stain | Lord Bellinger | Short story | 1904 | N/A | Collected in The Return of Sherlock Holmes | |
| The Afrika Reich | Lord Halifax | Novel | 2011 | N/A | | |
| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Rosamund Pritchard | Television | 2006 | Jane Horrocks | Originally a supermarket manager from Eatanswill, Yorkshire, Pritchard stands as an independent candidate out of anger and forms the Purple Alliance, a third-way party whose members are predominantly female. Her policies including moving Parliament to Bradford, banning car usage on "Green Wednesday", and promising to subject EU legislation to greater parliamentary scrutiny after a Lithuanian plane crashes over Walthamstow. | |
| 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. | |
| The Difference Engine | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | Novel | 1990 | N/A | Another member of the Industrial Radical Party, Brunel succeeded Lord Byron following his death in 1855. | |
| The Diplomat | Nicol Trowbridge | Television | 2023 | Rory Kinnear | | |
| The Final Cut | Francis Urquhart | Novel | 1995 | N/A | | |
| The Final Cut | Maxwell Stanbrook | Novel | 1995 | 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 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 | | |
| The Final Cut | Tom Makepeace | Television | 1995 | 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 | |
| The Kidnapped Prime Minister | David MacAdam | Short story | 1923 | N/A | Collected in Poirot Investigates | |
| The Leader | Oswald Mosley | Novel | 2003 | | | |
| The Madagaskar Plan | Lord Halifax | Novel | 2015 | N/A | | |
| The New Statesman | Alan B'Stard | Television | 1992 | | 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. | |
| 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 | | |
| The Queen and I | Jack Barker | Novel | 1992 | N/A | The leader of the People's Republican Party, Barker won the 1992 election through subliminal messaging organised by the television technicians' union. He immediately abolishes the monarchy and forces the Royal Family to live on a council estate. However, due to fulfilling expensive campaign promises Barker announced that Britain was to become part of Japan 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. | |
| The Queen and I | Jack Barker | Television | 2018 | David Walliams | The leader of the People's Republican Party, Barker won the 1992 election through subliminal messaging organised by the television technicians' union. He immediately abolishes the monarchy and forces the Royal Family to live on a council estate. However, due to fulfilling expensive campaign promises Barker announced that Britain was to become part of Japan 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. | |
| 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. | |
| The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Tom Hutchinson | Film | 1970 | 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. | |
| 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 is mentally unwell and dependent on antidepressants. A parody of Gordon Brown, Davis is unseen throughout the series. | |
| The Thick of It | JB | Television | 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. | |
| 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. 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. | |
| To Play the King | Francis Urquhart | Television | 1993 | Ian Richardson | 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. | |
| Torchwood: Children of Earth | Brian Green | Television | 2009 | Nicholas Farrell | | |
| 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. | |
| Whoops Apocalypse | Sir Mortimer Chris | Film | 1986 | | | |
| Years and Years | Vivienne Rook | Television | 2019 | Emma Thompson | The leader of the far-right, populist Four Star Party. 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. | |
| 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. 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 | | 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 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. | |
| Yes, Prime Minister | Jim Hacker | Television | 2013 | | 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. | |