British Prime Ministers since 1930 are:


Ramsay MacDonald (1929-35)
Stanley Baldwin (1935-37)
Neville Chamberlain (1937-40)
Winston Churchill (1940-45)
Clement Attlee (1945-51)
Winston Churchill (1951-55)
Sir Anthony Eden (1955-57)
Harold Macmillan (1957-63)
Alec Douglas-Home (1963-64)
Harold Wilson (1964-70)
Edward Heath (1970-74)
James Callaghan (1974-79)
Margaret Thatcher (1979-90)
John Major (1990-97)
Tony Blair (1997-2007)
Gordon Brown (2007-)
David Cameron (Present 2013

George Grenville

The Prime Minister generally resides in number 10, Downing Street, London.

The only Prime Minister to have served this number of terms is Lord Liverpool, who was in office from June 1812 to April 1827.

His term in office saw the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars, American Independence from Britain, the notorious Peterloo Massacre of 1819 (when a large gathering of political demonstrators in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester were attacked by a cavalry charge, leaving 15 dead and 650 injured) and the Cato Street Conspiracy, an attempt to assassinate Liverpool and his Cabinet in retaliation.

Liverpool never saw out the whole of his fourth term of office, resigning due to ill-health and dying in 1828 at the age of 58.

William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham

Labour Party leader Clement Atlee replaced Churchill in the last months of the war.

Initially it was Sir Neville Chamberlain, who declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939 following Hitler's invasion of Poland in breach of the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain sent a massive British Expeditionary Force into France to help the French defend their country against Nazi invasion, but was forced to resign in February 1940 following the disastrous British retreat from Dunkirk.

He was replaced by Winston Churchill, who headed a Coalition Government until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Soon afterwards a General Election was called, which saw Churchill replaced by the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It was Attlee who was in power when the war against Japan ended, in August '45.

As "Prime Minister" or "Sir" in person.

On letters, write the full title as "The Right Hon. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom PC MP" (PC=Privy Council, the most senior government officials MP=Member of Parliament) and begin the letter as "Dear Prime Minister"

The current British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is only 45 years old, having been born in 1966.

He is the second youngest ever British PM, second only to Pitt the Younger in the early 19the Century.

Winston Churchill

Harold Wilson said 'A week is a long time in politics'.

Samantha Cameron

No- the office of Prime Minister did not really exist at the time, as up until the time of the English Civil War Britain was an Absolute Monarchy, with ultimate governmental authority resting with the king or queen. There WAS a Parliament, which had a Chief Minister, but it was answerable to the sovereign and, although it could make laws, these had to be approved by the monarch who had the power to reject any that he or she did not agree with.

Following the Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1649, Cromwell assumed the title of 'Lord Protector of England'. He was not directly involved in the political process, but head of what was effectively a military government. Parliament was reinstated and (as had been the whole point of what the war was fought for) was far stronger than it had been, with the final word over what laws were passed. But it was made up of men who were strong supporters of Cromwell's beliefs and policies, whom he knew he could trust to uphold the ideals of the English Revolution. Cromwell was leader of the country, but did not attempt to block or veto laws that were passed by Parliament in the way that some English monarchs had done before the war, merely ensured that Parliamentary authority could not be undermined. He did take issue with some proposals that he was not entirely happy with, and debated the matters with Government ministers, but did not behave in the way that the old Absolute Monarchs had done. He essentially oversaw the military rule of the country, which remained in place throughout the period we now know as the 'Commonwealth'- he did not intend that the nation should remain like this permanently, but the state had been in a condition of national emergency for years, very unstable and volatile. Cromwell oversaw strong military enforcement of Parliament's laws because he felt it was the only way to make sure that the country could become stable, secure and established as a proper democracy for the first time in it's history (rather like the process that is taking place in Afghanistan today).

He recognised that there had to be a Head of State, and would have been happy to permit a Constitutional Monarchy had the Royalist faction agreed to it, but such a notion was not possible at the time. His position was pretty much equivalent to that of a President- in the last resort, he had the final word, but did not want matters to come to this pass if it could possibly be avoided.

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Britain & France demanded that Hitler stop the invasion, or Great Britain & France would declare war on Germany to honor their alliance with Poland. Hitler did not stop, so the British & French declared war.

The number of terms is unlimited. Prime Ministers are not elected directly by the British public. They are chosen by the party that wins government, which is based on winning the most seats in the lower house in parliament.

In theory, an Irish citizen could become Prime Minister of the UK, however it is very unlikely that someone who retained Irish citizenship would be elected leader of his/her party let alone win a general election.

The United Kingdom had one prime minister who was born in a colony of the UK, which later became part of Canada. This was Andrew Bonar Law, born in New Brunswick.

Industrial Revolution from 1750-1850 when a lot of changes happened eg agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times

Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of England during WW2.

Chamberlain stepped down as prime minister in 1940 because he knew he had lost all hope and confidence oh hjis own Conservative party as well as oppposition from the Labour and Liberal partys.

You got that question straight out of the text book. Lol the answer is right out of it too :P

Clement Attlee of the Labour Party. The slogan 'Cheer Wiston: Vote Labour' was a very effective one. It marked the peoples respect for the leadership Churchill had provided during the darkest days of WW2 but it had a message that Labour would provide a different government to that which had preceded the war.

That's easy! - most British Citizens are eligible to vote in Parliamentary elections, once they are 18. The Political Party that wins the most seats in Parliament will form a Government. The leader of the largest Parliamentary Party (and therefore the leader of the governing Party) becomes PM and head of the Government.