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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. Present prime minister Rishi Sunak in front of 10 Downing Street during his first speech as Prime ...
NameTime In OfficePolitical Party2022 – present2022Conservative2019 – 2022 [1]Conservative2016 – 2019Conservative- 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
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Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first de facto 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. Bottom right: Rishi Sunak is the incumbent, and first British Asian prime minister.
PortraitPortraitPrime Minister Office (lifespan)Term Of Office(start)Rishi Sunak [98] MP for Richmond (Yorks) ...25 October 2022Incumbent1 year, 176 daysLiz Truss [97] MP for South West Norfolk ...6 September 202225 October 202250 daysBoris Johnson [96] MP for Uxbridge and ...24 July 20196 September 20223 years, 45 daysTheresa May [95] MP for Maidenhead (born ...13 July 201624 July 20193 years, 12 daysThe office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the ...
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Edward Heath. Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.
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Heath won the 1970 election, and served his only term as Prime Minister during a time of strong industrial change and economic decline. He was elected on a manifesto to turn around the nation’s ...
Mar 12, 2024 · Conservative Party. Sir Edward Heath (born July 9, 1916, Broadstairs, Kent, England—died July 17, 2005, Salisbury, Wiltshire) was the Conservative prime minister of Great Britain from 1970 to 1974. Although he was of modest origins, Heath was educated at Oxford, where he was elected president of the University Conservative Association in 1937.
