Talk:List of fictional British politicians

Isn't Danvers Carew a conservative MP?

I read in a revision guide by Hodder Education that Sir Danvers Carew is a conservative MP, although i cannot find any source to confirm this. If anyone finds the source for this, please can you reclassify Carew as a conservative MP and reply in this thread with the location of the source? 79.73.252.100 (talk) 13:19, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Duplication?

I have seen (admittedly not all the series) The New Statesman on tv, which leads me to query two appearances of the same man. Under the list of Conservative MPs appears Sir Piers Fletcher-Dervish, MP for Devizes, actor portraying him Michael Troughton, but I also see under Tory MPs - historically the Conservative Party's original and present-day colloquial name - Sir Bollockstone Fletcher-Dervish, MP for Devizes, also portrayed by Michael Troughton. (However I allow for the possibility of an earlier member of the Fletcher-Dervish family being portrayed in an episode I may not have seen.)Cloptonson (talk) 20:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Henry Danby - post given in Harry's Game?

I have added under heading "Other [Ministries]" Henry Danby, whose death by IRA assassination launches the plot of Harry's Game (whose televised version I recall watching in 1982) - but I have forgotten if his job had a formal title. Does the book by Gerald Seymour and/or the film give it? I have heard him described him as responsible for the then Long Kesh Internment Camp (later Maze Prison), because his death was followed by an Irish voice phoning a newspaper claiming responsibility for killing the man "who was responsible for the Long Kesh concentration camp" (words of IRA spokesman). The synopsis in the Wikipedia article on HG only calls him a cabinet minister. He could have been a Home Secretary or a Northern Ireland Secretary.Cloptonson (talk) 06:31, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Removing David Horton MP - explanation

I have removed David Horton from this list, as to my knowledge there are no grounds whatsoever for claiming that The Vicar of Dibley character David Horton was ever said to be an MP in that series. He is certainly shown to be a Conservative in most of the series (except for a brief defection to the Labour Party when he is trying to get the Vicar to marry him) and the 1994 episode "Election" establishes he is a member of the local district council, a post he is re-elected to in that episode. It may be that someone has misunderstood this episode as it is established that he is district councillor for a ward called "Dibley and Whitworth" which this entry has as the constituency he was an MP for (in a later episode an MP for Dibley is mentioned, but the name of the constituency it is in is not established, though as a village it is unlikely it would feature in a parliamentary constituency's name). It may be that an associated work that I am unaware of claims that David was an MP at some point (I think it is unlikely though), but there would need to be a source citing that he was an MP to justify inclusion here as there is zero onscreen evidence that he was supposed to have ever been an MP. Thus I have removed this entry. Dunarc (talk) 19:30, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Nicholas Blake and Alistair Frith

Nicholas Blake MP from Spooks and Alistair Frith MP from Being Human were listed under Secretaries of Trade and Industry, but both were fictional Home Secretaries (and never mentioned as Trade and Industry Secretary as far as I can tell), so I have amended to reflect this. Dunarc (talk) 22:44, 5 September 2021 (UTC)