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1970 – 1974: Conservative Harold Wilson: 1964 – 1970: Labour Alec Douglas-Home: 1963 – 1964: Conservative Harold Macmillan: 1957 – 1963: Conservative Anthony Eden: 1955 – 1957: Conservative Winston Churchill: 1951 – 1955: Conservative Clement Attlee: 1945 – 1951: Labour Winston Churchill: 1940 – 1945: Conservative Neville ...
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
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. 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, 195 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 daysApr 19, 2024 · Augustus Henry Fitzroy (1768–70) Frederick North (1770–82) Charles Watson Wentworth (1782; 2nd time) William Petty-Fitzmaurice (1782–83) William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1783; 1st time) William Pitt, the Younger (1783–1801; 1st time) Henry Addington (1801–04) William Pitt, the Younger (1804–06; 2nd time) William Wyndham Grenville (1806–07)
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James Callaghan. Labour, 1976 - 1979. Callaghan inherited the office of prime minister following the surprise resignation of Harold Wilson. With only a tiny parliamentary majority to...
Apr 9, 2013 · - BBC News. Viewpoints: How did Margaret Thatcher change Britain? 10 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990 and is often credited with overseeing a period of great...
Sep 6, 2022 · This note lists the Prime Ministers that have served in the United Kingdom, since 1721. Since 1945, the UK has had 16 Prime Ministers. Ten of those Prime Ministers first took office between elections: Winston Churchill (in 1940); Anthony Eden; Harold MacMillan; Sir Alec Douglas Home; James Callaghan; John Major; Gordon Brown; Theresa May; Boris ...