UK Prime Ministers

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.

Churchill condemned the Soviet Unions policies in Europe and declared that from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across Europe. Part of a speech given at Fulton, Missouri, March 1946

The UK is a monarchy so doesn't have a President. The monarch in 1994 was Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Minister was John Major.

There is no maximum number- unlike the US President, a British Prime Minister can serve any number of consecutive terms for as long as they enjoy the confidence and support of the electorate and their own Party.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is most known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Germany. It is thought that his appeasement policy was for Britain to be seen as being fair to German concerns and to keep Europe from going into war. It is also thought that Chamberlain thought war was inevitable and used the policy to gain time in order to build up Britain's military position.

Chamberlain also declared war on Germany in 1939 after Germany attacked Poland. Britain and France had previously agreed to protect Poland.
Chamberlain was also known for his efforts towards improving the lives of workers. He supported the Holiday Pay Act which gave workers one week off with pay and the Factories Act of 1937 which limited the number of hours women and children worked.

The Prime Minister of Canada is answerable to the Canadian House of Commons, which is composed of the elected representatives of the Canadian people.

Since it is ultimately the Governor General who has the power to dismiss the Prime Minister, in theory, the Prime Minister would be answerable to the Governor General. In practice, the Governor General is apolitical, and would only use this power to remove a Prime Minister who is abusing Parliament and refuses to resign.

Neville Chamberlain was the Prime Minister of Britain between 28th May 1937 and 10th May 1940, he was succeeded by Sir Winston Churchill, Churchill was Prime Minster between 10th May 1940 and 26th July 1945.

There has to be a general election in Britain at least every 5 years, so that is a longest single term. A Prime Minister can be re-elected as often as their party wants them and they remain in power, so there is no real maximum time they can serve as such. In modern times Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister from May 1979 to November 1990. There have been longer serving ones. Robert Banks Jenkinson was Prime Minister from June 1812 to April 1827. Sir Robert Walpole was the first and longest serving from 1721 to 1742.

Clement Attlee was the British PM from 1945-1951.

At the time of the Treaty of Versailles, the Prime Minister of Great Britain was David Lloyd George.He had been the prime minister from 1916 to 1922.

Margaret Thatcher- she and Reagan were very close allies.

Up until 28th November 1990 it was Margaret Thatcher, who had been in office since 2nd May 1979. She was forced to resign due to various reasons of growing domestic unpopularity, but most especially over her attempt to introduce what was called the 'poll tax' (effectively, a tax upon a person's life!) and her creeping introduction of what could have become a police state, with civil liberties being eroded and much brutality and abuse being perpetrated by rogue policemen upon innocent members of the public.

She was replaced in early December '90 by her Chancellor John Major, who won a party leadership contest against Defence secretary Michael Hestletine and another candidate I can't remember offhand right now. Major was in office up until May '97- he saw Britain through the Gulf War and was in office during the collapse of the USSR, as well as signing Britain into the European Union and taking it into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. But the latter move resulted in financial disaster in the Autumn of '92, when the Uk was forced to withdraw from the ERM after not being able to maintain interest rates at the same level they were at in Germany. Billions of pounds were wiped of the UK stock market in hours, and Major's Chancellor Norman Lamont had to devalue the Pound Sterling.

Major also signed the Downing Street Declaration, which paved the way for the Northern Ireland peace process, but became notorious for failing to intervene to prevent the execution of British-American citizen Nick Ingram in August 1995. Ingram held a British passport, and had been on Death Row in Texas for the previous 12 years for the murder of a grocery shop owner- Major could have prevented him going to the electric chair, but despite much coverage in the media of what death in the 'chair' is like (NOT quick and painless by ANY means), Major left Ingram to his fate. His execution was one of the last to be carried out in this way before the US Supreme Court banned the use of the electric chair as 'cruel and unusual'.

On 2nd May 1997, the general public grew weary of 18 years of Tory rule, and Scotland & Wales were by then demanding devolved government. Major was swept from office by Tony Blair heading the New Labour Party, which had abandoned it's Socialist roots and moved to the Centre Right, courting big buisness and scrapping any commitment to public ownership of national assets. Blair introduced devolved Assemblies for Scotland and Wales, banned handguns in the UK and outlawed foxhunting, as well as succesfully improving Britain's economy- he had not long been Prime Minister when Princess Diana was killed on the last day of August '97. But he was soon realised to be nepotistic and morally corrupt, granting unelected Cabinet jobs to favourite cronies, exempting companies from regualtory laws if they were big donors to New Labour, recommending honours and knighthoods to industry heads or sports executives who had done him covert favours, and so on.

He failed to intervene to save the massive Rover car company, which meant the loss of tens of thousands of jobs, and was in office at the time of the World Trade Centre Disaster in New York of 11th December 2001.

It was George W. Bush's response to this that proved to be Blair's undoing- not only did he support US military action against Afghanistan, but was the only world leader to support the Iraq War against Saddam Hussein in April 2003. This was technically illegal under international law and massively unpopular with both the British public and many politicians, seeing an anti-war demonstration in London that was over 2 million strong- there was absolutely no evidence that Hussein had been involved in the New York attacks, or indeed had any weapons of mass destruction. But Blair went ahead and sided with Bush anyway, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of British soldiers and was responsible for the reprisal terrorist attacks against the London transport network on 7th July 2005, in which 51 people were killed. Blair never apologised for his role in the war, and continued to insist that Saddam Hussein had been developing terror-weapons.

His final years in office were characterised by an inclination towards despotic behaviour- some of his key Ministers, including Home secretary David Blunkett, Defence Secretary Chris Hoon and Social Security Secretary Harriet Harman were little better than he was, and presided over cuts in public spending, restrictions in civil liberties and a return to brutal policing. Blair would use bouncers to drag anyone who disagreed with him from the chamber at Party Conferences.

Eventually, his backbenchers rebelled and forced him to resign on 28th June 2007- he was replaced by his Chancellor, Gordon Brown, a Scotsman who had proved to be a competent financial minister. However, as is often the case, good Chancellors don't always make good Premiers, and Brown proved to be a weak and indecisive Prime Minister. Tragedy struck him when he was in office when his firstborn son died in infancy, for which everyone felt sorry. But he lost the 2010 General Election to the Conservatives led by David Cameron- although the Tories won the biggest number of votes, they did not have enough to be able by law to form a Government, so struck a deal with the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition. The LibDems had originally offered a coalition with Labour on the condition that Labour agreed to hold a referendum on electoral reform, but they refused, leaving the Liberal Democrats with no option but to join the Tories.

SO, it was:

1990- Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)

1990-97 John Major (Conservative)

1997-2007 Tony Blair (New Labour

2007-10 Gordon Brown (New Labour)

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, as his full name was, was a very good, brave and obedient leader.

Henry John Temple was Prime Minister of Britain in 1861. He served as Prime Minister of Britain from 1859 to 1865.

This was Sir Neville Chamberlain, in 1938- he believed that Hitler would invade no further countries after the Third Reich annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, but was forced to declare war on Germany when Hitler invaded Poland on 3rd September 1939.

Yes. John A McDonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

No. The Prime Minister lives at the official residence provided for him/her - No 10, Downing Street, London. There is also another official residence in the countryside called Chequers.

He/she may also have their private home in their constituency.

This was Frederick North, ennobled as Lord North. He was in office from 28th January 1770 until the 22nd March 1782, and led Britain into war against the United States during the American Revolution. He was also in office during the Gordon Riots in London in 1780, but resigned after losing a Confidence vote in the House of Commons (against the will of King George III).

He died in 1792, at the age of only 60.

Britain imposed new taxes on the American colonists in order to pay for the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven years war.) The British government felt that because the war was fought to protect the colonies, they should pay for some of the war.

Anthony Eden- he effectively was RESPONSIBLE or the Suez Crisis.

Eden took office in the '55 General Election, after Winston Churchill resigned his leadership of the Conservative Party due to failing mental health.

In 1956, the military leader of Egypt Colonel Abdel al-Nasser decided that it was not fair that foreign countries should be able to use the Suez canal without paying a tariff for doing so. He thus closed the canal to all international shipping unless they were prepared to pay a toll fee for using it. Eden decided this could be disastrous for British trade and could result in the Soviet Union developing economic dominance over the Middle Eastern area (since it didn't have to use the canal to export it's goods there), so launched a massive British taskforce to take the Canal Zone by force, intending to place it under international control.

He secured some support from Israel and also from France, but the USSR threatened to support Egypt militarily if the fighting escalated. Had this happened, all NATO countries would have been obliged to support Britain including the United States, and it would have resulted in WW3. The US President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked Eden into withdrawing from the region, saying that he risked plunging the world into a nuclear holocaust and also saying that, NATO notwithstanding, the USA would find it very difficult to support Britain if the Soviets got involved.

Disgraced and humiliated, Eden resigned on 11th January '57 and was replaced by his Chancellor, Harold MacMillan. Eden died in '77 at the age of 80.