Jeremy Thorpe

Jeremy was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was close to Global Chemicals. He personally forbade Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to investigate the company. (TV: The Green Death)

Behind the scenes

 * The Prime Minister was called "Jeremy" by the Brigadier, referencing Liberal Party leader . During production, there was a close-call general election; the Doctor Who production team, operating on the assumption that the UNIT stories took place in the near future, were joking that Thorpe would be appointed Prime Minister. This did not happen in reality, though in real life he did suffer severe scandals.
 * An article on the BBC Classic Doctor Who website, "Party Politics", makes the claim that Jeremy is Jeremy Thorpe and he led a coalition government following a at the 1970 election. However, after the events involving Global Chemicals, the government's involvement in the "Axonite scandal" and the "Operation Golden Age fiasco", this government collapsed in 1973, and was succeeded by the Labour government under Shirley Williams. No narrative information beyond The Green Death's use of "Jeremy" and the prime minister in Terror of the Zygons (airdate 1975) now being called a "madam" by the Brigadier appears to back up the establishment or collapse of these governments.