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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.
NameTime In OfficePolitical Party2022 – present2022Conservative2019 – 2022 [1]Conservative2016 – 2019ConservativeList 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.
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the UK House of Commons) since the first in 1802. The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is ...
ElectionNo.DatesPrime Minister Appointed By Monarch ...1802 ( MPs )1st5 July – 28 August 18021802 ( MPs )1st5 July – 28 August 18021806 ( MPs )2nd29 October – 17 December 18061807 ( MPs )3rd4 May – 9 June 1807Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
No.PortraitPortraitName (born – Died) Constituency15Narendra Modi (born 1950) MP for ...26 May 2014Incumbent14Manmohan Singh (born 1932) MP for Assam ...22 May 200426 May 2014(11)Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for ...19 March 1998 [§]22 May 200413Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) MP for ...21 April 199719 March 1998 [RES]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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