Gerard Wallop
Gerald Wallop (born 16th May 1898) is a British politician who currently serves as Minister of Food and Rural Affairs of the collaborationist United Kingdom of Great Britain. A member of the Old Guard faction of the British People's Party, he becomes its leader after the British Civil War, and a candidate for Prime Minister of the UK.
Background
Wallop was first elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament to the House of Commons in 1929. Like many other ultra-reactionary aristocrats who already saw their class in decline since the 1850s, Wallop believed that the Tories could no longer pursue 'true' Tory aims. As such, they aligned themselves with fascist-adjacent movements like the India Defence League and the English Mistery. By the time he left the Tories in 1934, Wallop had already made a name for himself, speaking to a variety of topics from agriculture to racial and civilisational decline.
In 1936, Wallop left the English Mistery and took many of its members to the newly-established English Array. Moreso than the Mistery (itself already a fascist, pro-Nazi group), the Array was openly inspired by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. In 1938, Wallop published Famine in England, describing his blood and soil ideology and warning about the societal and racial decay of Britain. The book's popular acclaim landed Wallop an airtime interview in the BBC and a number of speaking arrangements. Later that year, seeking to further his position in the far-right, fascist intellectual milieu, Wallop founded the British Council against European Commitments, which acted as a coordination body for various fascist movements outside the British Union of Fascists.
When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, Wallop and many of his peers discontinued any activities in fascist groups in favour of wartime duties and general British patriotism.
In 1945, after Operation Sea Lion ended in the British Empire's defeat, the Duke of Bedford, a long-time associate of Wallop, managed to install the British People's Party as the ruling party of the newly-reorganised collaborationist United Kingdom. Wallop, now elevated to the House of Lords following his father's death in 1943, was appointed Minister of Food and Rural Affairs and leader of the House of Lords.