Matilda Crow

**Matilda Lynda Crow** (June 27 1970 -) was a British stateswoman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, once from February 8, 2029 until May 19, 2034, as well as between May 7, 2021 and September 24, 2026, and the leader of the Unity party from 2015 until 2034. She also served as leader of the opposition on three different occasions, between 2020 and 2021, between 2026 and 2029 and briefly in 2034. As well as ministerial duties, Crow served as the Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam from 2002 onwards, first as a Conservative and then as a member of the Unity Party.

Entering parliament in 2002 as a member of the Conservative and Unionist Party for the seat of Sutton and Cheam in Greater London in a by-election, Matilda Crow served as part of the opposition back-benches of Conservative party leaders Ian Duncan Smith and Michael Howard before defecting from the party in 2006 to in protest about the leadership of David Cameron to join the Unity Party under the leadership of Boris Johnson, another disenfranchised MP.

Following the resignation of Johnson following a poor election result in the 2015 General Election, Crow became the leader of the Unity party and re-vitalised it in her image, pursuing opportunities to increase the party membership through large rallies and conferences whilst increasing her voter share going into the 2020 General Election. With the assassination of Jeremy Corbyn in December 2020 and the deaths of several Labour and Conservative MPs from a Hǔnluàn bombing attack at a protest in Westminster, the Unity party gained even more seats in parliament in by-elections and became the official opposition to the government of David Cameron, tabling a vote of confidence in the Cameron ministry in May 2021 which led to the resignation of Cameron and his government, allowing Queen Elizabeth II to appoint Crow as the 75th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 7, 2021.

Taking office as the Has Wars in Asia threatened to tip the world into a nuclear conflict, Prime Minister Matilda Crow began solidifying power away from parliament as Libirachi and Bovido warfare led to the destabilisations of Canogally and New Zealand, both of which being UK Commonwealth allies, and the Crow ministry began to implement emergency acts to consolidate power with the office of the Prime Minister in order to fight the Has Wars and then in the Libirachi Civil War as a secondary combatant. Leading the nation through a period of turbulence at the start of the 2020s, Matilda Crow also navigated the United Kingdom's transition period into the N20 organisation and worked alongside Avalonian leaders in the aftermath of the Libirachi wars to try and bring back stability into Europe, hosting military bases for American soldiers until they received deployment into nations like Dunsteen, Isgardia, Loxenia and Belarus. In 2026, Crow lost her majority in the house of Commons and was replaced as prime minister by Rishi Sunak.

During her time as the leader of the Opposition, Crow was present for the Coronation of King William V following the deaths of Prince Charles, the heir apparent in 2025, and the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2028. In January 2029, Crow was instrumental in calling an early election after a successful motion of no-confidence was passed in the government of Rishi Sunak. Upon her re-election in 2029, Matilda Crow set about pulling back against large amounts of the policies implemented by the preceding Conservative government as well as pulling the nation back politically leftwards, bringing back strategic relations with the Libirachi Empire following the antagonistic relationship favoured by PM Sunak, and the United Kingdom began pooling its resources into the Mars 2030 Project alongside their Libirachi and Avalonian counterparts. However, this closeness with the Libirachi regime ultimately twice cost her the role of Prime Minister in the 2026 and 2034 general elections, when the Conservative party under the leadership of Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel respectively won campaigns based on the issue of international security and collaborationism within the government.

Matilda Crow became the first prime minister of the twenty-first century to serve two non-consecutive terms in office, first from her appointment in 2021 until the 2026 general election, and again from her victory in the 2029 general election until her defeat in the 2034 elections. Following her defeat, Crow resigned as leader of the Unity Party, although remained in Parliament as an MP. Crow's tenures as prime minister have a divisive legacy in the United Kingdom, with many having polarised views upon her premierships; supporters have characterised Crow as an internationalist progressive who had boosted national security at the same time as helping to bring peace to Asia after 4 years of conflict. However, critics have accused her of being a "puppet of the Fox Dynasty" and of directly undermining British political interests in order to appease the Libirachi government.

## History

Born into a relatively affluent family in 1970, Matilda Crow joined the House of Commons in 2002 as a Conservative MP, and crossed the floor to join the Unity party in 2006 as a protest about the election of David Cameron as the Conservative leader. Rising through the ranks of the Unity party, Crow became their leader in 2015 after the resignation of Boris Johnson, the previous leader, and pursued opportunities to increase the party membership through large rallies and conferences. As the European Union collapsed in 2017, the Unity party began to attack the Conservatives for their continued support of the European body, even in its death throws. Upon the outbreak of the Has Wars in early 2020, Matilda Crow was one of the most vocal critics of Prime Minister Cameron's decision to remain out of the war - an act seen by many as poor leadership and weak decision making from the Conservative PM. As such, Crow and the Unity party attacked Cameron and his cabinet at PMQs and other debates over the issue, claiming that it was immoral and unjust to allow two nuclear nations and several with biological capabilities to go to war with each other, and joined the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to create a cross-party organisation to promote entering the war. However, in December 2020, Corbyn was assassinated by Hǔnluàn terrorists in Parliament Square, killing several other bystanders, journalists as well as 20 MPs from all parties. The terrorist attack left Britain in a constitutional crisis with no leader of the Opposition and many unoccupied seats within the House of Commons.

## Leader of the Opposition

### First term (2020-2021)

Following the deaths of Jeremy Corbyn and a large swath of the parliamentary Labour party, Unity party leader Matilda Crow became the leader of the official opposition as the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons; in the following weeks, the Unity party was able to secure byelection victories, as well as defections from the right-wing of the Labour party. On January 15, 2021, Prime Minister David Cameron failed to pass the Devolution Bill through the House of Commons after large sections of his own Conservative government voted against the policy, causing Cameron's coalition government to collapse as the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru withdrew from government. Within weeks, the official opposition under the leadership of Matilda Crow tabled a vote of confidence in the Cameron ministry on May 4, 2021, which saw the parliament vote out the government. After being denied a general election by the monarch, Cameron resigned as prime minister and Queen Elizabeth II invited Matilda Crow to form a government, in confidence and supply with the Labour party.

### Second term (2026-2029)

After parliamentary arithmetic and wider national discontent led to Matilda Crow's September 2026 general election defeat, Crow returned to the opposition benches as the Leader of the Opposition and managed to retain the leadership of the Unity party after many of her internal party critics lost their seats in the election defeat. As the aftermath of the 2027 Global Banking Crisis began to wreak havoc on the British economy, Matilda Crow led the opposition parties in attempting to strike down the government's budgets with the intention of forcing an early election; however, in August 2028, Queen Elizabeth II died after 76 years as reigning monarch, and the Conservative party called a snap election to elect a new Parliament for the new king, William V. Following the failure of the government to further aid the growing inflationary spiral in the economy, Matilda Crow tabled a vote of no confidence in the government and managed to defeat the second Sunak cabinet, forcing an early general election which propelled the Unity party back to government after 3 years of opposition.

## Premierships

 Main articles: First Crow ministry, Second Crow ministry and Third Crow ministry

 Monarch
 Election
 Monarch

Following the resignation of David Cameron as prime minister, Queen Elizabeth II invited Matilda Crow in her capacity as leader of the opposition to form a government, which was ultimately negotiated in confidence and supply with the Labour party. On the same day as assuming the premiership, PM Matilda Crow advised the Queen to prorogue parliament for 3 weeks between May 7 and June 1, 2021 in order to assemble a new cabinet and to prepare a new queen's speech for the new parliamentary session. After the proroguing of parliament between May 7 and June 1 2021, the first Crow ministry became focused on tackling the issue of devolution in the United Kingdom, removing the Devolution Bill from Parliament and by increasing political attacks against the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru. At the same time, the government passed the Emergency Powers Act 2021 in September 2021, which granted the Prime Minister unprecedented control of the army and state during periods of wartime; with the EPA 2021 passed, Prime Minister Matilda Crow led an international effort to pass a United Nations resolution condemning the Has Wars and permitting the use of force against the rogue nation of Bovido Has, allowing her to enact the EPA and launch an assault against the radical Christian nation with the aid of the presidential administration of Simon Walker in the United States of America. Following the conclusion of the United Nations effort in Asia in early 2022, Matilda Crow once again dedicated British forces to intervene in the Libirachi Civil War as it over-spilled across Eurasia. After resistance from the Labour party forced the Unity party to remain in office for the entirety of the 2020 - 2025 parliament, Prime Minister Crow announced on February 14, 2025 that the Unity and Labour parties would not be cooperating for the 2025 general election, which the Unity party would go on to win with a large majority.

Under her second ministry, Matilda Crow launched a wide-reaching defence review with the intention of "modernising" the armed forces of the nation, although her government received criticism after the findings of the review saw the size of the armed forces downgraded by 100,000 soldiers. In her first budget of the majority government, the Crow ministry set out large reaching corporation tax cuts as part of an attempt to attract investment, leading to a large intake of foreign businesses taking up residence in the United Kingdom; however, this came at the expense of several British firms, which were forced out of the economy, resulting in an uptake in unemployment and wider union discontent over the winter of 2025-26. Despite possessing an 80 seat majority in the House of Commons, a large part of the Unity party began to rebel against the government in parliamentary votes, effectively halting the government's ability to pass legislation - in June 2026, the Crow ministry was forced to rely upon support from the Conservative party to pass the Dissolution and Calling of Parliaments Act 2026, after Unity backbenchers refused to pass a law which would end the Fixed Terms Parliament Act 2011 in fear that they would loose their seats in the Commons in any snap election. As part of the Conservative party's support for the DCPA, Matilda Crow was supposed to immediately call a snap general election; however, Crow held off on the pledge and instead waited until after the summer recess of parliament to request a dissolution to Queen Elizabeth II, with a general election held on September 24, 2026. The election campaign was notable for it's high political temperature, with Prime Minister Matilda Crow receiving personal misogynistic abuse and political attacks from far-right groups for being a "traitor" for "selling out" British business. In the subsequent 59th Parliament, the Unity party lost 220 seats and was reduced to the official opposition, with Conservative party leader Rishi Sunak becoming prime minister on September 25, 2026.

Following a successful vote of no confidence in the second ministry of prime minister Rishi Sunak in January 2029, an early general election was held on February 8, 2029 and saw the Unity party gain a significant number of seats to secure a 16 seat majority in the House of Commons; as such, on February 9th, prime minister Rishi Sunak resigned his office and King William V formally invited Unity party leader Matilda Crow to form her third government on the same day. Immediately upon assuming office, prime minister Matilda Crow signed a formal request to the Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund for a debt relief loan and additional financing to restore public finances, with several further follow-up loans being granted in 2030, 2031 and 2032. In return for the loans, the United Kingdom began to participate in a scheme expatriating figures deemed as criminals or dissidents by the Avalonian and Libirachi governments to the respective nations, as well as cutting back on defence spending to focus on eliminating debt; however, with the aid of the two regimes, British fuel shipments began to enter onto the Eurasian economic market *en-masse*, helping to fund a significant growth in the United Kingdom's GDP levels. Under the second Crow administration, the government saw a record 20% pay rise for state sector workers in September 2029, ending months of strikes and breaks in state run services. In November 2029, prime minister Matilda Crow and American president Alexander Turpin had a well publicised row at a bilateral meeting in Washington D.C. over British economic cooperation with the Fox Dynasty and potential trade sanctions against the British government; following the row, President Turpin implemented trade sanctions against the United Kingdom and 6 other European countries on November 29, 2029 over their cooperation with the Libirachi government. In August 2030, prime minister Matilda Crow became one of the first world leaders to actively back the Eurasian Union of States' invasion of the military junta in Loxenia, and in July 2031 she became the first western leader to meet with newly reinstalled president Alex Glyn. Crow was also a key supporter of the unification of northern African states into forming the United Arab Republic in August 2031, and in November of the same year, Crow was a signatory of the Kiev Accords. In July 2033, Matilda Crow became an early supporter of the Karyn Voor administration in the Fox Dynasty following it's assumption of power; later in the same month, prime minister Crow made a speech advising that the Islamic Emirate of Egypt and United Arab Republic remained safe nations to live in. However, in September 2033 the Bovido Imperium launched an invasion of both states, leading to the deaths of hundreds of British expatriates and tourists, causing a major political scandal.

After the natural conclusion of the 61st Parliament, prime minister Matilda Crow formally requested a dissolution on April 17, 2034 and an election was held on May 19, 2034; in the subsequent election, the Unity party lost 39 seats and the Conservative party under Priti Patel gained 30, allowing them to form a government with Patel as prime minister. On May 20, 2034, prime minister Matilda Crow formally tendered her resignation to King William V; within hours, Crow had also resigned as leader of the Unity party and was replaced by Angela Rayner by August 1st, after a brief stint as opposition leader.