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List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom

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The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet.

There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over time through a merger of duties. The term was regularly, if informally, used by Robert Walpole by the 1730s. It was used in the House of Commons as early as 1805, and it was certainly in parliamentary use by the 1880s, although did not become the official title until 1905, when Henry Campbell-Bannerman was prime minister.

Historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first prime minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving British prime minister by this definition. The first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger at its creation on 1 January 1801. The first to use the title in an official act was Benjamin Disraeli who signed the 1878 Treaty of Berlin as "Prime Minister of Her Britannic Majesty".

In 1905, the post of prime minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence, with the incumbent Henry Campbell-Bannerman the first officially referred to as "prime minister". The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Andrew Bonar Law, although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister.

The current prime minister is Keir Starmer, who assumed the office on 5 July 2024.

Before the Kingdom of Great Britain

Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), served as lord protector to his young nephew King Edward VI; William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (lord high treasurer, 1572–1598), was the dominant minister to Queen Elizabeth I; Burghley's son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, succeeded his father as Chief Minister to Elizabeth (1598–1603) and was eventually appointed by King James I as lord high treasurer (1608–1612).

By the late Stuart period, the Treasury was often run not by a single individual (i.e., the lord high treasurer) but by a commission of lords of the Treasury, led by the first lord of the Treasury. The last lords high treasurer, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1702–1710) and Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1711–1714), ran the government of Queen Anne.

From 1707 to 1721

Following the succession of George I in 1714, the arrangement of a commission of lords of the Treasury (as opposed to a single lord high treasurer) became permanent. For the next three years, the government was headed by Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, who was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Subsequently, Lords Stanhope and Sunderland ran the government jointly, with Stanhope managing foreign affairs and Sunderland domestic. Stanhope died in February 1721 and Sunderland resigned two months later; Townshend and Robert Walpole were then invited to form the next government. From that point, the holder of the office of first lord also usually (albeit unofficially) held the status of prime minister. It was not until the Edwardian era that the title prime minister was constitutionally recognised. The prime minister still holds the office of first lord by constitutional convention, the only exceptions being the Earl of Chatham and the Marquess of Salisbury.

Since 1721

Prime ministers

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Portrait	Prime minister	Term of office	Mandate	Ministerial offices held as prime minister	Party	Government	Monarch	Start	End	Duration
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford by Arthur Pond (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Robert Walpole]]		1721	1742			1722		Whig	Walpole–Townshend	George I[[File:GeorgeIKneller1714 (cropped).jpg	alt=George I of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
	1727	George II[[File:Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) - George II (1683–1760) - 851734 - National Trust (cropped).jpg	alt=George II of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
	1734	Walpole
	1741
[[File:Spencer Compton 1st Earl of Wilmington (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Spencer Compton]]		1742	1743			—				Carteret
[[File:Henry Pelham (1694–1754) (cropped 2).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Henry Pelham]]		1743	1754			—			Broad Bottom I
	1747		Broad Bottom II
[[File:Thomas-Pelham-Holles-1st-Duke-of-Newcastle-under-Lyne (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Thomas Pelham-Holles]]		1754	1756			1754				Newcastle I
[[File:4th Duke of Devonshire after Hudson (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Cavendish]]		1756	1757		—			Pitt–Devonshire
	1757 Caretaker
[[File:Thomas-Pelham-Holles-1st-Duke-of-Newcastle-under-Lyne (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Thomas Pelham-Holles]]		1757	1762		1761			Pitt–Newcastle
	Bute–Newcastle	George III[[File:George III of the United Kingdom-e (cropped) (cropped).jpg	alt=George III of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, by Joshua Reynolds crop (cropped).jpeg	frameless	upright=0.5	John Stuart]]		1762	1763			—				Tory		Bute
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:George Grenville (1712–1770) by William Hoare (1707-1792) Cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	George Grenville]]		1763	1765			—				Whig		Grenville
[[File:2nd Marquess of Rockingham cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Charles Watson-Wentworth]]		1765	1766			—				Whig		Rockingham I
[[File:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham after Richard Brompton cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Pitt the Elder]]		1766	1768			1768			Whig		Chatham
[[File:Augustus-Henry-FitzRoy-3rd-Duke-of-Grafton (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Augustus FitzRoy]]		1768	1770			—				Grafton
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Nathaniel Dance Lord North cropped cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Frederick North, Lord North]]		1770	1782			1774		Tory	North
	1780
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:2nd Marquess of Rockingham cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Charles Watson-Wentworth]]		1782	1782			—				Whig		Rockingham II
[[File:William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne by JL Mosnier crop (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Petty]]		1782	1783			—				Whig		Shelburne
[[File:01-Bentinck William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland c 1774 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Cavendish-Bentinck]]		1783	1783			—				Whig		Fox–North
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:George-Romney-xx-William-Pitt-the-Younger-xx-Tate-Britain (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Pitt the Younger]]		1783	1801			1784		Tory	Pitt I
	1790
	1796
[[File:Henry Addington by Beechey (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Henry Addington]]		1801	1804			1801		Tory	Addington
	1802
[[File:OlderPittThe Younger crop (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Pitt the Younger]]		1804	1806			—				Tory		Pitt II
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:1st Baron Grenville (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Grenville]]		1806	1807			1806				Whig		All the Talents
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:01-Bentinck William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland c 1774 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Cavendish-Bentinck]]		1807	1809			1807			Tory		Portland II
[[File:Spencerperceval (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Spencer Perceval]]		1809	1812			—				Perceval
[[File:Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Robert Jenkinson]]		1812	1827			1812		Liverpool
	1818	George IV[[File:Portrait of King George IV of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (detail 2), by Thomas Lawrence - Royal Collection.jpg	alt=George IV of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
	1820
	1826
[[File:George Canning by Richard Evans - detail (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	George Canning]]		1827	1827			—				Tory		Canning
[[File:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	F. J. Robinson]]		1827	1828			—				Tory		Goderich
[[File:Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Robert Home cropped.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]]		1828	1830			—		Tory	Wellington–Peel
	(1830)	William IV[[File:William IV of Great Britain c. 1850 (cropped).jpg	alt=William IV of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]]		1830	1834			1831		Whig	Grey
	1832
[[File:2nd V Melbourne (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne]]		1834	1834			—				Melbourne I
Tories (British political party)}}"		[[File:Lord Arthur Wellesley the Duke of Wellington.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1834	1834			(—)				Tory		Wellington Caretaker
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert Peel by RR Scanlan detail (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Robert Peel]]		1834	1835			(—)				Conservative		Peel I
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:2nd V Melbourne (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne]]		1835	1841			1835		Whig	Melbourne II
	1837	Victoria[[File:Queen Victoria by Bassano (3x4 close cropped).jpg	alt=Queen Victoria	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert Peel by RR Scanlan detail (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	Robert Peel]]		1841	1846			1841				Conservative		Peel II
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell_by_Sir_Francis_Grant_detail_(cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1846	1852			(1847)				Whig		Russell I
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Francis_Grant_(1803-1878)_-_Edward_Geoffrey_Smith-Stanley_(1799–1869),_14th_Earl_of_Derby,_KG,_PC_-_428979_-_National_Trust_(cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	painting]]		1852	1852			1852				Conservative		Who? Who?
Peelite}}"		[[File:George_Hamilton-Gordon_cph.3b31157_(cropped)_(cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	engraving]]		1852	1855			(—)				Peelite		Aberdeen
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1855	1858			1857				Whig		Palmerston I
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:14th Earl of Derby (cropped) (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	engraving]]		1858	1859			(—)				Conservative		Derby–Disraeli II
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1859	1865			1859		Liberal	Palmerston II
	1865
[[File:Lord John Russell (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1865	1866			—				Russell II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby_(cropped)_(cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	engraving]]		1866	1868			(—)			Conservative	Derby–Disraeli III
[[File:Benjamin Disraeli by H Lenthall (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1868	1868			(—)
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:William Ewart Gladstone (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1868	1874			1868				Liberal		Gladstone I
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Benjamin Disraeli by H Lenthall (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1874	1880			1874				Conservative		Disraeli II
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:William Ewart Gladstone (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1880	1885			1880				Liberal		Gladstone II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert cecil (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1885	1886			(—)				Conservative		Salisbury I
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:William Ewart Gladstone (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1886	1886			(1885)				Liberal		Gladstone III
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert cecil (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1886	1892			(1886)				Conservative		Salisbury II
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:William Ewart Gladstone (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1892	1894			(1892)			Liberal		Gladstone IV
[[File:Archibald-Philip-Primrose-5th-Earl-of-Rosebery (cropped) (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1894	1895			(—)				Rosebery
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Robert cecil (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1895	1902			1895		Conservative		Salisbury III
1900	Salisbury IV
Edward VII[[File:Eduard VII 1902 (cropped).jpg	alt=Edward VII	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
[[File:Arthur Balfour, photo portrait facing left (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1902	1905			—				Balfour
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Henry Campbell-Bannerman photo.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1905	1908			1906			Liberal		Campbell-Bannerman
[[File:Herbert Henry Asquith.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1908	1916			—			Asquith I
	(1910)		Asquith II	George V[[File:King George 1923 LCCN2014715558 A (cropped).jpg	alt=George V	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
	(1910)		Asquith III
	(—)		Asquith Coalition
[[File:LloydGeorge (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1916	1922			(—)			Lloyd George War
	1918		Lloyd George II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Andrew Bonar Law 01 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1922	1923			1922				Conservative		Law
[[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1923	1924			—				Conservative		Baldwin I
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Ramsay-MacDonald (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1924	1924			(1923)				Labour		MacDonald I
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1924	1929			1924				Conservative		Baldwin II
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:J. Ramsay MacDonald LCCN2014715885 (3x4 crop).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1929	1935			(1929)			Labour		MacDonald II
National Labour Organisation}}"			(—)	National Labour		National I
	1931		National II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1935	1937		1935		Conservative	National III
Edward VIII[[File:Duke and Duchess of Windsor - Google Art Project (Duke cropped).jpg	alt=Edward VIII	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
George VI[[File:King George VI LOC matpc.14736 (cleaned) (cropped).jpg	alt=George VI	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
[[File:Chamberlain Neville.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1937	1940		—			National IV
	Chamberlain War
[[File:Sir Winston Churchill (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1940	1945		—			Churchill War
	Churchill Caretaker
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Clement Attlee (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1945	1951			1945		Labour		Attlee I
	1950		Attlee II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Sir Winston Churchill (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1951	1955		1951		Conservative	Churchill III
Elizabeth II[[File:Elizabeth II 1959.jpg	alt=Elizabeth II	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
[[File:Anthony Eden (retouched) (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1955	1957			1955				Eden
[[File:Harold Macmillan (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1957	1963			—			Macmillan I
	1959		Macmillan II
[[File:Alec Douglas-Home (c1963) (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1963	1964			—				Conservative		Douglas-Home
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Harold Wilson.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]	Premiership	1964	1970			1964		Labour		Wilson I
	1966		Wilson II
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Golda Meir and Edward Heath cropped (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1970	1974			1970				Conservative		Heath
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Harold Wilson.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]	Premiership	1974	1976			(1974)		Labour		Wilson III
	1974		Wilson IV
[[File:Prime Minister James Callaghan (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1976	1979			—				Callaghan
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Margaret Thatcher (1983) (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1979	1990			1979		Conservative		Thatcher I
	1983		Thatcher II
	1987		Thatcher III
[[File:John Major Feb. 1993.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1990	1997			—			Major I
	1992		Major II
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Tony Blair in 2002 (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		1997	2007			1997		Labour		Blair I
	2001		Blair II
	2005		Blair III
[[File:Gordon Brown official (cropped 2).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2007	2010			—				Brown
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		[[File:David Cameron official (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2010	2016			(2010)		Conservative		Cameron–Clegg
	2015		Cameron II
[[File:Theresa May Official (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2016	2019			—			May I
	(2017)		May II
(DUP confidence & supply)
[[File:Boris Johnson official portrait (cropped 3).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2019	2022			(—)			Johnson I
(DUP confidence & supply)
	2019		Johnson II
[[File:Official portrait of Liz Truss (3x4 cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2022	2022		—		Truss
Charles III[[File:King Charles III (July 2023).jpg	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
[[File:Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sidebar.jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]		2022	2024			—				Sunak
Labour Party (UK)}}"		[[File:Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer Official Portrait (cropped 3).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	photograph]]	{{ubl	item_style=text-align:center;line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.9ex;	{{small	MP for [[Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)	Holborn and St Pancras	2024	Incumbent			2024		Labour		Starmer

Living former prime ministers

File:0O2A1317 (54138449867) (cropped).jpg|John Major (1990–1997)

File:Tony Blair - Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph 2025.jpg|Tony Blair (1997–2007)

File:Gordon Brown - Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph 2025 (cropped closer).jpg|Gordon Brown (2007–2010)

File:Remembrance Sunday in Whitehall 2024-11-10-11-01-B (cropped).jpg|David Cameron (2010–2016)

File:Official portrait of Theresa May (cropped).jpg|Theresa May (2016–2019)

File:Remembrance Sunday in Whitehall 2024-11-10-11-26-D (cropped).jpg|Boris Johnson (2019–2022)

File:Liz Truss (54346036307) (cropped).jpg|Liz Truss (2022)

File:Remembrance Sunday in Whitehall 2024-11-10-11-26-C (cropped).jpg|Rishi Sunak (2022–2024)

Currently, there are eight living former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. The most recent death of a former prime minister was that of Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) on 8 April 2013.

Disputed prime ministers

Due to the gradual evolution of the post of prime minister, the title is applied to early prime ministers only retrospectively; this has sometimes given rise to academic dispute. William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, and James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, are sometimes listed as prime ministers. Bath was invited to form a ministry by George II when Henry Pelham resigned in 1746, as was Waldegrave in 1757 after the dismissal of William Pitt the Elder, who dominated the affairs of government during the Seven Years' War. Neither was able to command sufficient parliamentary support to form a government; Bath stepped down after two days and Waldegrave after four. Modern academic consensus does not consider either man to have held office as prime minister; they are therefore listed separately.

Portrait	Prime minister	Term of office	Mandate	Ministerial offices held as prime minister	Party	Government	Monarch	Start	End	Duration
Whigs (British political party)}}"		[[File:1stEarlOfBath (cropped).jpg	frameless	upright=0.5	[[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath	William Pulteney]]]]		1746	1746			–		Whig	Short-lived	George II[[File:Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) - George II (1683–1760) - 851734 - National Trust (cropped).jpg	alt=George II of Great Britain	frameless	none	upright=0.4]]
[[File:James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (cropped).JPG	frameless	upright=0.5	James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave]]		1757	1757			–		Waldegrave

List notes

; a year : indicates a general election won by the government or that led to the formation of a government (the year links to the election's article); ; a parenthesised year : indicates an election resulting in no single party winning a Commons majority (the year links to the election's article); ; a dash : indicates the formation of a majority government without an election; ; a parenthesised dash : indicates the formation of a minority or coalition government during a hung parliament.}}}}

Timeline

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from: 1807 till: 1809 color:tory text:"The Duke of Portland" bar:PittJr from: 1783 till: 1801 color:tory from: 1804 till: 1806 color:tory text:"William Pitt the Younger" bar:Addington from: 1801 till: 1804 color:tory text:"Henry Addington" bar:GrenvilleW from: 1806 till: 1807 color:whig text:"The Lord Grenville" bar:Perceval from: 1809 till: 1812 color:tory text:"Spencer Perceval" bar:Liverpool from: 1812 till: 1827 color:tory text:"The Earl of Liverpool" bar:Canning from: 1827 till: 1827 color:tory text:"George Canning" bar:Goderich from: 1827 till: 1828 color:tory text:"The Viscount Goderich" bar:Wellington from: 1828 till: 1830 color:tory from: 1834 till: 1834 color:tory text:"The Duke of Wellington" bar:Grey from: 1830 till: 1834 color:whig text:"The Earl Grey" bar:Melbourne from: 1834 till: 1834 color:whig from: 1835 till: 1841 color:whig text:"The Viscount Melbourne" bar:Peel from: 1834 till: 1835 color:conservative from: 1841 till: 1846 color:conservative text:"Robert Peel" 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1894 till: 1895 color:liberal text:"The Earl of Rosebery" bar:Balfour from: 1902 till: 1905 color:conservative text:"Arthur Balfour" bar:CBannerman from: 1905 till: 1908 color:liberal text:"Henry Campbell-Bannerman" bar:Asquith from: 1908 till: 1916 color:liberal text:"Herbert Henry Asquith" bar:LloydGeorge from: 1916 till: 1922 color:liberal text:"David Lloyd George" bar:Law from: 1922 till: 1923 color:conservative text:"Andrew Bonar Law" bar:Baldwin from: 1923 till: 1924 color:conservative from: 1924 till: 1929 color:conservative from: 1935 till: 1937 color:conservative text:"Stanley Baldwin" bar:MacDonald from: 1924 till: 1924 color:labour from: 1929 till: 1931 color:labour from: 1931 till: 1935 color:natlabour text:"Ramsay MacDonald" bar:Chamberlain from: 1937 till: 1940 color:conservative text:"Neville Chamberlain" bar:Churchill from: 1940 till: 1945 color:conservative from: 1951 till: 1955 color:conservative text:"Winston Churchill" bar:Attlee from: 1945 till: 1951 color:labour text:"Clement Attlee" bar:Eden from: 1955 till: 1957 color:conservative text:"Anthony Eden" bar:Macmillan from: 1957 till: 1963 color:conservative text:"Harold Macmillan" bar:DHome from: 1963 till: 1964 color:conservative text:"Alec Douglas-Home" bar:Wilson from: 1964 till: 1970 color:labour from: 1974 till: 1976 color:labour text:"Harold Wilson" bar:Heath from: 1970 till: 1974 color:conservative text:"Edward Heath" bar:Callaghan from: 1976 till: 1979 color:labour text:"James Callaghan" bar:Thatcher from: 1979 till: 1990 color:conservative text:"Margaret Thatcher" bar:Major from: 1990 till: 1997 color:conservative text:"John Major" bar:Blair from: 1997 till: 2007 color:labour text:"Tony Blair" bar:Brown from: 2007 till: 2010 color:labour text:"Gordon Brown" bar:Cameron from: 2010 till: 2016 color:conservative text:"David Cameron" bar:May from: 2016 till: 2019 color:conservative text:"Theresa May" bar:Johnson from: 2019 till: 2022 color:conservative text:"Boris Johnson" bar:Truss from: 2022 till: 2022 color:conservative text:"Liz Truss" bar:Sunak from: 2022 till: 2024 color:conservative text:"Rishi Sunak" bar:Starmer from: 2024 till: end color:labour text:"Keir Starmer"

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"Walpole, Robert, first earl of Orford (1676–1745), prime minister".

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