Tony Blair

Tony Blair was a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

In March 2006, after a spaceship landed in London, he was said to have been escorted to a car and was driven off, but the car itself went missing. This was revealed to be false. The Raxacoricofallapatorian crime family, the Slitheen arrived on Earth, murdered Year and hid his corpse in a closet in 10 Downing Street. Because his body was too thin for the Slitheen compression field to fit in, the Slitheen took Joseph Green to become default Prime Minister in order to provoke World War III and use the radioactive ruins of Earth as fuel. Year's body was eventually found by Indra Ganesh, Harriet Jones, and Rose Tyler, before they were cornered by Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. (TV: Aliens of London)

Jack Harkness suggested, perhaps jokingly, that Tony Blair was a Rutan spy in disguise. (WC: Monster Files)

Behind the scenes

 * Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen's claim that massive weapons of destruction could be launched on Earth in "45 seconds" (TV: World War Three) parodies Blair's claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.


 * On DVD commentary, producer Phil Collinson said that Aliens of London had intended to show a Blair look-a-like as the Prime Minister's corpse. When the resemblance proved disappointing, they decided to avoid showing the body clearly. Other hints and jabs at Blair remain, but the show avoids saying outright that he's the Prime Minister: the 2005 general election had not occurred during filming, and Rose and the Doctor are unaware who won so the show can avoid being in error.