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NameTime In OfficePolitical Party2022 – present2022Conservative2019 – 2022 [1]Conservative2016 – 2019ConservativeTop right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. Bottom right: Rishi Sunak is the incumbent, and first British Asian prime minister.
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.
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- 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
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.
Political Party: Whig. Name: Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693 – 1768) Title: 1 st Duke of Newcastle. Time in Office: 1754 to 1756, 1757 to 1762.
Sir Edward Heath. Conservative 1970 to 1974. Sir Edward Heath was Prime Minister during a time of industrial upheaval and economic decline during which he led Britain into the European...
