UK Prime Ministers

At the beginning of the year it was Robert Peel, who was only in office for 4 months until his resignation on 8th April due to being unable to form a Government (however, he went on to become a succesful Prime Minister in the first half of the 1840's).

He was succeeded by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, on 18th April. Lamb was in power until 1841 and oversaw the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, an agreement with various New Zealand maori chiefs which paved the way to New Zealand becoming part of the British Empire.

There was a General Election in 1987 in which a Conservative majority was returned in parliament. Margaret Thatcher, being the Conservative leader and incumbant Prime Minister therefore continued in office.

funny question, but it doesnt work that way. you get into parliament and work your way there.

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David Lloyd George, the first (and only) Welshman to hold the office. He took over from Herbert Asquith in the middle of WW1 following disagreements in the Asquith Government about war policy, and was in office until October 1922, when he was replaced by the Conservative Andrew Bonar Law.

He died in 1945 aged 82, soon after the end of WW2 in Europe.

Tony Blair in 1997.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a Liberal who was in office from early December 1905 to early April '08.

His main achievements whilst in office were to sign the Anglo-Russian Entente and to restore regional autonomy to the Transvaal and Orange Free State regions of South Africa. However in earlier years, whilst in opposition, he was a fierce critic of the Boer War and pressed for the establishment of The Fawcett Commission, which was an official enquiry into alleged British atrocities committed during the war.

He died in office in 1908 at the age of 72, and was succeeded by his Chancellor Herbert Asquith.

There has never been a Prime Minister of England. England is a part of, but not the same as, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was Margaret Thatcher.

from 1955 to 1957

There has never been a Prime Minister of England.

England is a part of, but not the same as, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, often abbreviated as UK.

The UK Prime Minister (May 2012) is David Cameron.

The Rt Hon Spencer Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. John Bellingham shot him through the heart with a pistol in the lobby of the House of Commons at 5:15pm on 11 May 1812.

Anthony is his first name, however he is most commonly known as Tony.

No, since as Parliament is made up of opposing political parties, it would be impossible for a Prime Ministerial candidate to be agreed upon that would be acceptable to everyone!

The Prime Minister of the UK is the leader of his political party, achieving this position by rising up through the ranks of the Cabinet (or Shadow Cabinet) until his or her position as Party Leader is voted upon by the party. If they are leader of the Opposition, but their party wins the following General Election, then they become Prime Minister (as, for example, David Milliband will if the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition lose the next election in 2014).

If the leader of the governing party resigns as Prime Minister (as Margaret Thatcher did in 1990), then they are either replaced by their Chancellor (which is the second most powerful job in Government), or a new leader CAN be chosen by party ballot. For example, following Thatcher's resignation, John Major was elected as new Tory Party leader in favour of two other running mates, Michael Hestletine and another candidate I can't remember right now. But this is not usual practice- normally, if a PM resigns mid-term, then their Chancellor takes over until the next General Election (as Alec Douglas-Home did when Harold MacMillan resigned in '63, James Callaghan did when Harold Wilson resigned in '76, David Lloyd George did when Asquith resigned in '16, and so on).

The position of Deputy Prime Minister is subordinate to that of Chancellor- the Deputy PM represents the Prime Minister when the Premier is out of the country or on leave for some reason (i.e. illness, bereavement etc.), but does NOT take over if the Premier quits altogether. For instance, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is currently deputy PM, but if David Cameron had to leave office for some reason then it would be his Chancellor, George Osbourne, who would take over as Prime Minister, and not Clegg.

At the beginning of '45 it was Winston Churchill, but after WW2 ended in Europe in May a general election was called, which saw him replaced by Labour leader Clement Attlee.

Attlee was in office until early '51 and was Prime Minister when the war in the Far East ended in August '45. He was also in office when India became independent, oversaw Britain's contribution to the Berlin Airlift of '47 when Stalin's Soviet government attempted to seal off West Berlin, and for the first year of the Korean War. His government also introduced the Welfare State and the National Health Service in the UK.

At the '51 elections, Attlee was voted out and replaced by Churchill again, who was elected as a peactime leader. He went on to lend British military support to the USA during the Korean War.

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Neville Chamberlain (National Government/Conservative)1937-40 Winston Churchill (Wartime Coalition and Conservative)1940-5 and 1951-5 Clement Attlee (Labour)1945-51 Anthony Eden (Conservative)1955-7 Harold Macmillan (Conservative)1957-63 Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)1963/4 Harold Wilson (Labour)1964-70 and 1974-6 Edward Heath (Conservative)1970-4 James Callaghan (Labour)1976-9 Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)1979-90 John Major (Conservative)1990-7 Tony Blair (Labour)1997-2007 Gordon Brown (Labour)2007-present

MacMillan; Douglas-Home; Wilson (2 terms); Heath; Wilson (again); Callaghan; Thatcher (3 terms); Major; Blair (2 terms); Brown. Nine. Wilsons second time as PM was also 2 terms, but the '74 elections were very close together.

Normally, they leave office if their party is voted out in a General Election, although they can resign the position for a variety of reasons, such as ill-health (as happened with Harold MacMillan and Harold Wilson) or if they have become too unpopular with the public for it to remain tenable for them to stay on (as was the case with Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher).

Unless they have themselves lost their constituency seat in the election, they have a choice as to whether to remain in politics as a member of the opposition (and maybe as a member of the Shadow Cabinet), or to move on to another job in the political arena such as heading a policy research committee, etc. Some Prime Ministers are ennobled after their tenure is over, and move on to sit in the House of Lords. This can also happen to leaders of the opposition, such as former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

Mostly by radio- at the outbreak of WW2, television transmission closed down as there were fears that it could be used as too effective a propaganda tool by the Nazi's if Britain was invaded. Churchill thus gave a nightly broadcast to the nation over the radio. He also appeared on newsreels shown in cinemas, and very occasionally visited places significant to the war effort where he made speeches to the public assembled there.

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During the very beginning of Hitler's rise to power and the outset of World War II, Neville Chamberlain served as Prime Minister. For most of the war however, Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Britain.

The UK Prime Minister in 2014 was David Cameron. Cameron is a member of the Conservative Party and served as Prime Minister from May 2010 until his resignation in July 2016 when he was replaced by Theresa May.