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UK Prime Ministers
Head of her majestey's government, the Prime Minister office dates back to 1721. Prime Ministers traditionally live at 10 Downing Street in London. The Prime Minister is appointed by the queen, and is felt to inspire confidence in the House of Commons.
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What were the major parts of the navigation acts?
The navigation acts were a series of laws passed in English Parliament in the 1600s that restricted the use of foreign shipping gor trade between England and its colonies. it was originally used for excluding the Dutch colonists from the profits made by the English trade.
Who was prime minister in 1999 UK?
This depends on the country.
Canada: Jean Chretien was the Prime Minister in 1997
UK: Tony Blair, after the general election, on the first of May 1997. Earlier in the same year, the Prime Minister was John Major.
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1950?
Clement Richard Attlee was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1950.
Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 July 26 to 1951 October 26. He was also the first ever Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1942 February 19 to 1945 May 23, as part of a coalition government during World War Two.
After World War Two ended in Europe, an election was called. Labour was heavily victorious in the election, with 'full employment' being the major issue of the post-war climate. Attlee implemented heavy social reforms, including creation of a national health service, national assistance act, and national insurance act. Labour also nationalized the Bank of England, aviation, coal mining, railways, cable, wireless, steel, electric and gas industries. The government heavily invested in basic infrastructure, improving education and transportation.
This spending caused budget problems with the government, but they were assisted by loans from the US government. Although the pound was at first convertible directly to dollars, this practice was ended, and the pound had to be devalued.
Foreign policy in the post war era was marked by rising Soviet influence; Britain hoped to counter this by way of NATO and other European co-operation, as well as development of its own nuclear program. Decolonization was started under the Labour government, with India, Ceylon and Burma being the first countries to gain independence.
By the 1950 elections, public support for Labour had declined, and Labour's majority shrunk significantly. The UK also found themselves joining UN forces in the Korean war. By 1951, with Labour finding themselves unable to govern, another election was called and the Conservatives regained power.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland contains England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which do not have separate prime ministers.
What does british wrongs mean?
There's no such term- 'rights' and 'wrongs' are casually generic terms used by the media to describe certain aspects of political behaviour or attitude on the part of the Government and / or Opposition in relation to certain policies or implementations of law, but it's not an official term used by anyone other than when somebody (or someTHING such as a Company) breaks the law, when they are 'in the wrong'.
As a boy he risked riducle for a speech impedimate and went on to become the British prime minister?
Sir Winston Churchill
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Who became British Prime Minister after failure of Gallipoli Campaign?
David Lloyd George, who took over from Herbert Asquith in 1916 following disagreements within the War Cabinet as to how the international crisis should be handled. The first Welshman to hold the office, Lloyd George was in power until October 1922- his term as Premier coincided with that of another Welshman in another country, Billy Hughes of Australia.
What are names of numbers that are multibles of ten?
ok, if you multiply ten by one you get ten. If you multiply ten by two you get twenty. If you multiply ten by three you get thirty. If you multiply ten by four you get forty. Sensing a trend here yet? All those things are multiples of ten. Basically, if a number ends in a zero, it's a multiple of ten.
Who succeeded ted heath as UK prime minister?
Harold Wilson- Wilson had been Prime Minister beforehand, from 1964 to '70, but returned to power on 4th March 1974, when Heath called an early election in a backfired attempt to confront striking miners.
Wilson succeeded in ending the Miner's Strike, introduced the Health & Safety at Work Act, and validated Britain's membership of the EEC in a 1975 referendum, but was involved in the 'Cod War', a fisheries dispute with Iceland. He resigned his office on 5th April '76 due to ill-health and was replaced by his Chancellor, Jim Callaghan.
Wilson died in 1995 and is buried on The Scilly Isles, off the coast of Cornwall.
What is the rest of the address for 10 Downing Street?
The complete address for the home of the First Lord of the Treasury/British Prime Minister is:
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA, United Kingdom
Is the British prime minister is head of state?
No. The head of state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the British Monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The prime minister is the head of government, appointed by the Queen and accountable to Parliament, and formally holds the office of First Lord of the Treasury.
Who is the presiding bishop of Great Britain?
There is no person or office with the title "Bishop if Great Britain".
The head of the Anglican church is the "Archbishop of Canterbury" and the current incumbent of that position is a man called Justin Welby.
Where was first British Prime Minister born?
The first British Prime Minister is generally credited as being William Walpole- he was born in 1676 at Houghton Hall in Norfolk on 4th April.
His father, Robert Walpole, was a Whig politician who represented the constituency of Castle Rising, and William was the third of seventeen children, eight of whom died in infancy.
He died on 18th March 1745 at the age of 68. Houghton Hall (which was built for his father) is now a Grade 1 listed building and it's 1,000 acres of parkland are adjacent to the Queen's estate at Sandringham. The hall is open to the public.
Winston Churchill- it was one of the first speeches he made after taking office in May 1940 after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
Made soon before the Battle of Britain, he was trying to be realistic about the threat posed to Britain by Nazi Germany- he was under no illusions that the war would be an enormous global conflagration and would drag on for years, causing untold death, devastation and suffering. He didn't want the British public to think that he was humouring them into thinking that it would be a short, easily-won conflict; it was a tough speech, but he thought it was better to be straight with the public about what lay ahead rather than patronise them into believing that Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan could be easily defeated.
British prime minister during the Boston massacre?
The Boston massacre took place on the 5th March 1770 when 5 cilivians died. The Prime Minister was Frederick North
What did Churchill predict will happen in Czechoslovakia?
That the Germans would completely occupy it
What would happen if the Prime Minister of the UK married the Queen?
Well, it could never happen because royals almost always marry other royals. The Queen is married already too. If she did marry what would be known as a commoner, she might have to abdicate, as happened with Edward VIII. In practical terms, the queen would remain as monarch and the prime minister would be prime minister.
Who was the enthusiastic supporter of the Gallipoli invasion later became a British Prime Minister?
David Llyod-George was the first supporter of the Gallipoli invasion who in which later became a British Prime Minister.
Who was the British Prime Minister on the day you were born in 1994?
As it happens I was born many years before 1994, BUT in any case, the Prime Minister throughout that year was Conservative John Major. He had been Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor, but replaced her when she resigned in November 1990.
He took Britain through the Gulf War and was Prime Minister during the collapse of the Soviet Union, being elected in his own right in the election of May 1992. But his government was forced to take Britain out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and devalue the pound sterling later that year, due to Britain being unable to maintain interest rates at the level they were in Germany. This was known as 'Black Wednesday', when billions of pounds were wiped of UK shares- the UK was forced to renegociate it's terms of European membership under the Maastricht Treaty.
Major also failed to intervene to prevent the execution of British-American Nick Ingram in April 1995; Ingram was a British national but had an American father, and had been imprisoned since '83 for the murder of a shop owner during a robbery. He was sent to the electric chair in Georgia at the age of only 31- his was one of the last executions to be carried out in the US using the chair, and resulted in Major being held in contempt and disgust by many British citizens.
He lost the 1997 election to Tony Blair's New Labour party, who won a landslide majority.
He thought the colonies should help pay for the Seven Years' War.
