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The voters elect Members of Parliament (MPs), and the MPs choose the prime minister. The system grew in stages as the Commons grew in power and the monarch's authority dwindled. The current prime minister has been Rishi Sunak since 25 October 2022.
List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom. Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- 21st century
- 20th century
- 18th & 19th centuries
The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP
2022 to 2022
The Rt Hon Boris Johnson
2019 to 2022
The Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Conservative 2016 to 2019
The Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair KG
Labour 1997 to 2007
The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH
Conservative 1990 to 1997
Baroness Thatcher
Conservative 1979 to 1990
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Conservative 1895 to 1902 Conservative 1886 to 1892 Conservative 1885 to 1886
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Liberal 1894 to 1895
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal 1892 to 1894 Liberal 1886 to 1886 Liberal 1880 to 1885 Liberal 1868 to 1874
Apr 19, 2024 · Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 7, 2023 · Presidents and prime ministers are, more than ever, key players in domestic and international politics. The rise to increased prominence and power has however not marked the only element shaping recent developments at the level of political chief executives.
- Ludger Helms
- ludger.helms@uibk.ac.at
Former prime minister Tony Blair, for example, represented Sedgefield in County Durham from 1983 to 2007. He became prime minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.
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Bottom right: Rishi Sunak is the incumbent, and first British Asian prime minister. Modern historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, as the first prime minister.
