UK Prime Ministers

The Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, who was referring to the economic boom and increased standards of living in the late 1950s.

The President of the USA (or, indeed, any other nation) is the country's Head of State, whereas the British Prime Minister is not. He is the leading Minister of government, but Britain is a monarchy, so the Head of State is the reigning monarch, who at present is Queen Elizabeth II.

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Tony Blair

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The above is a meaningless answer- Gordon Brown was voted out at the General Election of May 2010 and replaced by the Conservative David Cameron. Cameron heads a Government that is a coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, with the latter being the smaller party- although the Conservatives won the largest share of the vote, they didn't have enough seats required by law to form a Government. This left the Liberal Democrats in the position of 'Kingmakers'- they could have gone into a coalition deal with either Labour or the Conservatives and given either party enough seats to form a Government. However, the Liberal Democrats wanted whichever party they chose, to agree to hold a Referendum that proposed a change in the voting system from 'first past the post' to Proportional Representation. Labour refused to agree to this, so the Lib Dems went into coalition with the Conservatives instead., with their leader Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister.

David Cameron is the second youngest Prime Minister ever to hold the office, second only to William Pitt the Younger- he is only 46 years old, very young to hold such an important job.

In a General Election the leader of the Party with the most seats in the House of Commons becomes PM.

Britain does not actually elect its Prime Minister as noted above it is the party which wins the most seats in a general election which is asked to form the next Government. Usually the leader of that party (who is chosen by its Party members) would then become PM. This system means that it would be possible for the PM and the Party leader to be two different people if the Party in question chose to select a new leader but the sitting PM refused to step down as PM.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, was a member of the Conservative Party and was, unfortunately, the wrong leader of the British people during this tense period. He refused to provoke Hitler or Mussolini and appeased both dictators at every turn. He looked the other way when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936. He did nothing when Germany and Austria reunited in 1938. Later that year, at the Munich Peace Conference, once again Chamberlain gave in to demands by Hitler to cede to the Germans, the German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. Few month later, Germany occupied the entire country, without the British declaring war. Only when Hitler invaded Poland in Sept, 1939, that the British and French declare war on Germany. Had Churchill been Prime Minister during this period, perhaps the war could have been averted. My only anwer to Chamberlain's weakness, is that, like most English of that generation, remembered the horrors of World War 1 and the 1 million British soldiers that were killed. That helps explain why the French had littel stomach for the fighting in the 2nd World War and easily surrendered to the Germanys in June 1940.

None. However, Tony Blair became a Roman Catholic a few months after resigning as Prime Minister.

The British Government has to call a General Election every four or, at the maximum, five years. British Prime Ministers do not have term limits as US Presidents have, they can remain in power for as long as they are supported by public opinion and the confidence that their own party has in their leadership. Margaret Thatcher was in power for so long because she had the majority support of the Conservative Party, and also because the opposition Labour Party was weak and in disarray at the time. She was finally forced to resign in November 1990 because of the overwhelming opposition to the Poll Tax (basically, a tax for a person's very existence!) both from the British public at large and from within her own Party.

David Lloyd George- he was a Liberal and the first Welshman to become Prime Minister, taking over from Herbert Asquith in 1916 in the middle of WW1, following disagreements within the War Cabinet about the progress of the war.

He saw Britain through the rest of the war and was present at the Versailles Peace Conference, he also oversaw the official creation of the Republic of Ireland, in return for the predominantly Loyalist North of Ireland remaining within the UK, but left office in October 1922 to be replaced by the Conservative, Andrew Bonar Law.

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

William Pitt the Younger died from liver failure. He passed away on January 23, 1806, at the age of 46.

There have been several, not just one- in post-WW2 times there have been four who have forcibly resigned and one who resigned voluntarily. Anthony Eden (PM 1955-57) was forced to resign over creating the Suez Crisis, Margaret Thatcher (PM 1979-90) was forced to do so following a vote of No Confidence in her leadership after the introduction of the Poll Tax in Britain, Tony Blair (PM 1997-2007) was forced to do so as a result of pressure from within his own governing Labour Party after it was disclosed that he took Britain to war against Iraq in partnership with the US on the basis of false intelligence information, and David Cameron (PM 2010-15) was forced to do so after losing the referendum on whether Britain should remain a part of the EU. Harold MacMillan (PM 1957-63) resigned voluntarily because he had been wrongly diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and believed he was going to die, but in fact lived for another 23 years! (contrary to popular belief, his resignation had nothing to do with the Profumo Affair).

But there have been several other Premiers before the last World War who have been forced to resign throughout history- which period of time are you thinking of?

Neville Chamberlain

Clement Attlee- he replaced Churchill in the general election of May 1945 and was PM when the war ended in the Far East. He was also in office during the establishment of the United Nations, securing Britain a permanent seat on the Security Council, and also signed Britain into NATO- he also oversaw Britain's contribution to the Berlin Airlift of 1947.

In '51 he was voted out to be replaced by Churchill again, who was re-elected as a peacetime leader.

Harold MacMillan

The current Prime Minister of the UK is David Cameron. Every Thursday, the Queen of the UK meets the Prime Minister.

Winston Churchill

Up until the 20th May it was the Conservative Andrew Bonar Law, who was a Canadian and the only British Prime Minister ever to be born outside of the country. However, he was forced to resign due to ill-health after only 6 months in office, and died in the November of that year.

He was replaced on 23rd May by his Chancellor Stanley Baldwin, but after calling a general election he failied to win a majority of seats in thew Commons, so headed only a minority Government until resigning on 16th January the following year after losing a Confidence Vote.

However, Baldwin returned in subsequent years to serve two more terms as Prime Minister, from 1924-'29 and from 1935-'37. He died in 1947 at the age of 80.

Herbert Asquith

Clement Atlee, who served as British Prime-minister from 1945 until 1951.

David Lloyd George was the British Priminister during WW1. He was one of the three men who came up woth the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, along with American president Woodrow Wilson and french priminister Georges Clemenceau. Hope this helps =)

It is known as a Parliament.

The British Prime Minister at the start of World War 2 was Neville Chamberlain.