List of fictional British politicians

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Monarchs

See List of fictional British monarchs

Prime ministers

See List of fictional British Prime Ministers

Cabinet secretaries and ministers

Chancellors of the Exchequer

Gillian Calderwood MP (Selina Cadell), Spooks
The Rt. Hon. Eric Jeffries MP, Yes, Prime Minister
Lawrence Wainwright MP, A Very British Coup
The Rt. Hon. Catherine Walker MP, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Defence secretaries

Sir Frederick Gray (Geoffrey Keen), The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights
Geoff Holhurst MP (Rob Edwards), The Thick of It
The Rt. Hon. Sir Maxwell Hopkins MP, Yes, Prime Minister

Education secretaries

The Rt. Hon. Henry Snodgrass MP, Yes, Prime Minister

Ministers of Education

The Rt. Hon. Hugo Culpepper-Brown PC MP (Eric Barker), Blue Murder at St Trinian's (later Minister of State for Schools)
John McNonentity MP, Spitting Image
The Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Thwaites PC MP (Colin Firth), St Trinian's

Environment secretaries

Annita Burke MP, House of Cards Trilogy
Michael Samuels MP, House of Cards Trilogy
The Rt. Hon. Brian Smithson MP, Yes, Prime Minister

Foreign secretaries

Geoffrey Booza-Pitt MP – House of Cards Trilogy
Patrick Woolton MP – House of Cards Trilogy
James Allan MP (Alex Jennings), Spooks, 2003–2006
Rachel Beauchamp MP (Jill Baker), Spooks, 2008–2010
Ruth Chambers MP (Angela Bruce), Spooks, 2006–2008
Lord Hilary Kilvert MP, The Five Royal Coachmen
The Rt. Hon. Duncan Short MP, Yes, Prime Minister
The Rt. Hon. Dorothy Crowther MP, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Home Secretary

Nicholas Blake MP (Robert Glenister), Spooks
Margaret Blaker (Isla Blair), The Quatermass Experiment
Alistair Frith MP (Toby Whithouse), Being Human
The Rt. Hon. Julia Montague MP, Bodyguard
The Rt. Hon. Hilary Rees-Benson MP, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Secretaries of Trade and Industry

Basil Corbett MP, Yes Minister
The Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Pickles MP, Yes, Prime Minister

Secretaries of fictional ministries

Department of Administrative Affairs

Minister for Administrative Affairs, Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington), Yes Minister, (later Prime Minister)
Minister for Administrative Affairs Tom Sargent MP (Robert Urquhart), Yes Minister

Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship

Secretary of State for Social Affairs (later and Citizenship) Hugh Abbot MP (Chris Langham), The Thick of It
Secretary of State for Social Affairs Cliff Lawton MP (Tim Bentinck), The Thick of It
Shadow Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Citizenship Peter Mannion MP (Roger Allam), The Thick of It (later Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Citizenship)
Junior Minister of Social Affairs Dan Miller MP (Tony Gardner), The Thick of It (later Leader of the Opposition)
Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Citizenship Nicola Murray MP (Rebecca Front), The Thick of It (later Leader of the Opposition)
Minister for Immigration (DoSAC) Ben Swain MP (Justin Edwards), The Thick of It
Minister of State for Social Affairs (DoSAC) Fergus Williams MP (Geoffrey Streatfeild), The Thick of It

Ministry of Magic

Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge (Robert Hardy), Harry Potter
Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy) Harry Potter

Other fictional ministries

Minister of International Commerce Sir John Dixon MP (Joss Ambler), The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Minister with Unusual Portfolio Sir Ronald Rolands MP (Graham Crowden), Nebulous
Minister for Silly Walks Mr. Teabag MP (John Cleese), Monty Python's Flying Circus
Minister of Public Worship Oliver Brand MP (Labour), character in Robert Hugh Benson's novel Lord of the World

Other

First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Henry Porter KCB MP, H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan
Attorney General Sir Edward Leithen MP - John Macnab by John Buchan
Minister of State for Schools Sir Horace Bradford PC MP (Raymond Huntley), The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
Minister for the Arts Nick Everitt MP, Yes, Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister Caroline Fox MP (Cheryl Campbell), Spooks, 2006–2010
Secretary of State for Transport The Rt. Hon. Neil Hitchcock MP, Yes, Prime Minister
Secretary of State for Wales Geronwy Hopkins MP (Hubert Rees), The New Statesman
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Sir Ronald Masterman MP, The Five Royal Coachmen
Secretary of State for Housing Sir Greville McDonald MP (Terence Alexander), The New Statesman (later Minister for Law and Order, Secretary of State for the Environment, MP for Devizes, Secretary of State for European Affairs and Leader of the Progressive Federalists Party)
Minister of State for Scotland Hugh McKenzie MP, First Among Equals (later Secretary of State for Scotland)
Secretary for European Affairs Lord Penryn, The Adventure of the Lost Holiday
Minister of State for Health Leslie Potts MP, Yes, Prime Minister
Minister of Housing and Planning Leslie Titmuss MP (David Threlfall), Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer (1991 TV series, sequel to Paradise Postponed 1986 series)
Under-Secretary of Defence Adam Sutler MP, V for Vendetta
Foreign Trade Minister Daniel Wise MP (Ian Bartholomew), Spooks
Minister of International Trade The Rt. Hon. Christopher Waites, MP (Anthony Bate), The Saint episode "The Imprudent Politician"
Under-Secretary for Finance Charles Wentworth MP, Spitting Image
Henry Danby MP, IRA-assassinated minister responsible for the Long Kesh Internment Camp, whose death launches the plot for Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour (1975, televised 1982).
Justice Secretary The Rt. Hon. Peter Laurence (Hugh Laurie), Roadkill

Members of Parliament

House of Commons of the United Kingdom

Conservative MPs

Julian Backbench-Crawler MP – Spitting Image
Sir Anthony Backbench-Dull MP – Safe Seat-in-Surrey, Spitting Image
Baxter Basics MP – Greyfriars Central, Viz
Sir Stephen Baxter MP (John Nettleton) – The New Statesman (later elevated to the House of Lords)
Richard Bellamy MP (David Langton) – Upstairs, Downstairs (later Civil Lord of the Admiralty, elevated to the House of Lords and Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs)
Geoffrey Booza-Pitt MP – House of Cards Trilogy (later Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Foreign Secretary)
Alan B'Stard MP (Rik Mayall) – Haltemprice, The New Statesman (later chairman of the Conservative Party, MEP for Obersaxony, Leader of the New Patriotic Party and Lord Protector)
Sir William Bunter MP – Greyfriars Central, Viz
Claire Carlsen MP (Isla Blair in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy
Sir Anthony Childish MP – Wilmslow Garden Centre, Spitting Image
Henry Collingridge MP (David Lyon in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy (later prime minister)
Victor Crosby MP (James Saxon) – Accrington, The New Statesman
The Hon. Sir Piers Fletcher-Dervish MP (Michael Troughton) – Devizes, The New Statesman (later Junior Minister for Housing and European Commissioner for Internal Relations)
Simon Dunn MP - Ever Decreasing Circles, The Campaign
Sir Michael Harbour-Baker MP – Pucklebridge, First Among Equals
Sir James Jaspers MP – Haslope West, Marvel UK (later Prime Minister)
Simon Kerslake MP (James Faulkner in the TV adaptation) – Coventry Central, First Among Equals (later Junior Shadow Minister for Housing, Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, MP for Pucklebridge, Shadow Minister of State for Education, Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Minister of State for Defence, Secretary of State for Defence, Shadow Home Secretary, Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition – also prime minister in the US version)
Sir Eric Koops MP – Sussex Downs, First Among Equals
Tom Makepeace MP (Paul Freeman in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy (later deputy prime minister, foreign secretary, prime minister and an independent)
Augustus Melmotte MP - Westminster, (David Suchet in 2001 TV adaptation) The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875)
Ainslie Munro MP – Edinburgh Carlton, First Among Equals
Alec Pimkin MP – Littlehampton, First Among Equals
The Rt. Hon. Rockasaurus MP – Birmingham Nice Part, Spitting Image
Claud Seabrook MP (Julian Fellowes), Our Friends in the North, later Home Secretary
Claudia Seabrook MP (Saskia Wickham), Our Friends in the North
The Hon. Charles Gurney Seymour MP (Jeremy Child in the TV adaptation) – Sussex Downs, First Among Equals (later Junior Shadow Minister for Housing, Junior Whip, Minister of State for Trade, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Speaker of the House of Commons)
Tim Stamper MP (Colin Jeavons in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy (later Junior Whip, Chief Whip and Chairman of the Conservative Party)
Maxwell Stanbrook MP – House of Cards Trilogy (later Secretary of State for the Environment and prime minister)
Colonel Sir Tewkesbury MP (Bernard Archard) – Wolverton, Upstairs Downstairs
Leslie Titmuss MP - (David Threlfall in both TV series) - Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained (later Minister for Housing and Planning)
Bill Travers MP – Redcorn, First Among Equals (later Shadow Minister of Agriculture)
Captain Clive Trevelyan MP (Timothy Dalton in ITV adaptation) – Sittaford, The Sittaford Mystery
Aubrey Upjohn MA MP – Market Snodsbury, Jeeves in the Offing
Francis Urquhart MP (Ian Richardson in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy (later Chief Whip and prime minister)
D.P. Wentworth MP – Bethwick West, The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
David West MP - Tooting North, Citizen Smith, series 1, episode 6 'The Hostage'
Patrick Woolton MP (Malcolm Tierney in the TV adaptation) – House of Cards Trilogy (later Foreign Secretary)
Julian Fawcett MP (Simon Farnaby), Ghosts

Labour MPs

Alf Abbott MP – Coventry Central, First Among Equals
Pandora Braithwaite MP – Ashby-de-la-Zouch - the Adrian Mole series
David Brownlow MP (Bernard Horsfall in the 1974 TV adaptation) - South Riding
Tom Carson MP – Liverpool Dockside, First Among Equals
Mary Cox MP (Gina McKee), Our Friends in the North
Bob Crippen MP (Nick Stringer) – Bramall, The New Statesman
Agnes Fairchild MP (Barbara Ewing) - Utterley, Brass
Andrew Fraser MP (David Robb in the TV adaptation) – Edinburgh Carlton, First Among Equals (later Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, Minister of State at the Home Office, Minister of State for Defence and Leader of the Social Democratic Party)
Raymond Gould QC MP (Tom Wilkinson in the TV adaptation) – Leeds North, First Among Equals (later Under-Secretary of State for Employment, Minister of State for Trade, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade, Shadow Secretary of State for Social Services, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the Labour Party – also prime minister in the UK version)
Stephen Kendrick MP – House of Cards Trilogy
Paddy O'Rourke MP (Benjamin Whitrow) – The New Statesman
Jean Price MP (Penelope Keith) - No Job for a Lady
Harry Shagboat MP – Rotherhithe, Upstairs, Downstairs
Zilliboy Shinbags MP – Labour Party caricature in Michael Cummings political cartoons
C.R. Spettigue MP – Bethwick West, The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
George Watson MP (Ian Cullen) - Gallowshield, When the Boat Comes In (later MP for Gallowshield North)
Eddie Wells MP (David Bradley), Our Friends in the North

Liberal Party MPs

Julia Bartlett MP - SLD MP for Bermondsey, Inspector Morse, The Infernal Serpent
Rudolph Bead MP – Lands End South, Not the Nine O'Clock News
The Rt. Hon. George Duggan MP (Robert Hardy) - Rye, The Duchess of Duke Street
Sir Daniel Fogarty MP (Tom Adams) – Manchester, The Onedin Line
Robert Onedin MP (James Garbutt), The Onedin Line
Major Reginald Leslie Pinner MP (Roger Hammond) - Gallowshield, When the Boat Comes In

Tory MPs

Henry Buckley Flashman MP – Ashby, Flashman series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser
Sir Bollockstone Fletcher-Dervish MP (Michael Troughton in the TV sitcom) – Devizes, The New Statesman
Captain Gower MP (Noel Johnson in the TV adaptation) – Truro, Poldark series of novels by Winston Graham
Captain Ross Poldark MP (Robin Ellis in the 1975 TV adaptation, Aidan Turner in the 2015 version) – Truro, Poldark series of novels by Winston Graham

Other parties

S. Baldrick MP (Tony Robinson) – Adder Party – Dunny-on-the-Wold, Blackadder the Third (later elevated to the House of Lords)
Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Ole-Biscuitbarrel MP (Michael Palin) – Silly Party – Luton, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Charles Egremont MP – Industrial Radical Party, The Difference Engine
John Smith MP – Standing Party – Hammersmith Palais, The Goodies Rule – O.K.?
James Walker MP (Terry Jones) – Sensible Party – Harpenden, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Jethro Q. Walrustitty MP (Graham Chapman) – Silly Party – Leicester, Monty Python's Flying Circus
George Warleggan MP (Ralph Bates in the TV adaptation) – Whig – Truro, Poldark series of novels by Winston Graham

Unknown parties

Captain Monk Adderley MP (Malcolm Tierney in the TV adaptation) – Bishop's Castle, Poldark series of novels by Winston Graham
Nicholas Ashworth MP (Anton Lesser) – Spooks
Thomas Baker MP (David Tomlinson) – Wormskirk, Carry on Admiral (later Principal Private Secretary to the First Sea Lord)
Clare Ballentine MP (Eve Matheson) – The Thick of It
Sir Talbot Buxomly MP (Denis Lill) – Dunny-on-the-Wold, Blackadder the Third
Sir Danvers Carew MP – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stephen Faraday MP (James Wilby in ITV adaptation) – Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
Nick Hanway MP (Martin Savage) - The Thick of It
Harriet Jones MP (Penelope Wilton) – Flydale North, Doctor Who: "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" (later Prime Minister)
Joan Littler MP (Brenda Blethyn) - Liverpool South-West, Yes Minister (later Principal Private Secretary to the prime minister)
The Rt. Hon. St. John Murray MP – The Navy Lark
Jeremy Renno MP (Benny Hill) – The Benny Hill Show and The Best of Benny Hill
William Sampson MP (Rupert Graves) – Spooks
Mr. Scrymgeour PC MP – The Adventures of Sally
Colonel James Skinsale MP (Alan Rowe) – Thurley, Horror of Fang Rock
Sir Henry Tomkins MP (James Hayter) – Carry on Admiral
Unwin Trevaunance MP (Peter Clay in the TV adaptation) – Bodmin, Poldark series of novels by Winston Graham
Maureen Watkins MP – Yes Minister
Sir Reginald Wheelbarrow MP – The Goodies
Hampton Wilder MP (Tim Pigott-Smith) – Spooks

House of Lords

Lord Hampton of Wick (Kenneth Connor) – Carry On Henry (later Prince of Berkshire)
Rupert Seymour, 15th Earl of Bridgewater – First Among Equals
Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup (John Turner in the TV adaptation) – Jeeves novels by P. G. Wodehouse
Charlie Tyrell, Lord Haslemere (Christopher Cazenove) - The Duchess of Duke Street

Mayors

Mayor Margaret Blaine (Annette Badland) – Cardiff, Doctor Who episode "Boom Town"

References

"BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Robert Hardy, Minister of Magic, dies". BBC. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
Schwartz, Terri. "Bill Nighy Confirms His Role In 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows'". MTV News. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
Robert Hugh Benson, Lord of the World, Saint Augustine's Press, 2011. Page 136.

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