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List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom. 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 ...
- Liz Truss
Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British...
- Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June...
- David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping...
- John Major
Sir John Major KG CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British...
- Wellington Caretaker
Daguerreotype of Wellington, aged 74 or 75, by Antoine...
- Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17...
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- H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG,...
- Walpole Townshend
The government of Great Britain was under the joint...
- Liz Truss
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern prime ministers hold office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons ...
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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 – 2019ConservativeDespite the reluctance to legally recognise the premiership, ambivalence toward it waned in the 1780s. During the first 20 years of his reign, George III (1760–1820) tried to be his own "prime minister" by controlling policy from outside the Cabinet, appointing and dismissing ministers, meeting privately with individual ministers, and giving them instructions.
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet. There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over a period of time through a merger of duties. The term was regularly, if informally, used of Robert Walpole by the ...
All other prime ministers were born in Great Britain (46 in England and 7 in Scotland). Although of Welsh origin, David Lloyd George was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Lancashire. Nationality and ethnicity. The English are a majority within the United Kingdom. Several prime ministers have come from the other nations of the United Kingdom. Irish
This is a graphical timeline of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from when the first prime minister of Great Britain in the modern sense, Robert Walpole, took office in 1721, until the present day. From 1801 until 1922, British prime ministers also held the office for the whole of Ireland.
