List Of Prime Ministers Of UK (2024 Update)

Last Updated: 23 December 2023

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the Principal Minister of the crown of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of the British Cabinet.

In 1905, the post of Prime Minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence. Modern historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, as the first Prime Minister.

Walpole is also the longest-serving British Prime Minister by this definition. However, Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the first and Margaret Thatcher the longest-serving Prime Minister officially referred to as such in the order of precedence.

Read the list of Prime Ministers of UK with their tenure dates and interesting facts about UK Prime Ministers.

Facts About Prime Ministers Of UK

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• Robert Walpole was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister.

• The first to use the title in an official act was Benjamin Disraeli, who, in 1878, signed the Treaty of Berlin as “Prime Minister of Her Britannic Majesty”.

• Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister for most of World War II.

• Margaret Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister.

• Rishi Sunak is the current Prime Minister and the first British Asian Prime Minister.

• Female Prime Ministers of UK are:
  • Margaret Thatcher (4 May 1979 – 28 Nov 1990)
  • Theresa May (13 July 2016 – 24 Jul 2019)
  • Liz Truss (6 Sep 2022 – 25 Oct 2022)

• 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.

Party And Prime Minister

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No.	Party	Prime Ministers
1	Conservative	27
2	Conservative (Scot.U.)	2
3	Labour	7
4	Liberal	10
5	National Labour	1
6	Peelite	1
7	Tory	3
8	Tory (Addingtonian)	1
9	Tory (Canningite)	2
10	Tory (Northite)	1
11	Tory (Pittite)	5
12	Whig	13
13	Whig (Chathamite)	3
14	Whig (Grenvillite)	1
15	Whig (Rockinghamite)	2

List Of Prime Ministers Of UK

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No.	Prime Minister	Term In	Term Out	Tenure	Party
1	Robert Walpole	03 Apr 1721	11 Feb 1742	20Y 315D	Whig
2	Spencer Compton	16 Feb 1742	02 Jul 1743	1Y 137D	Whig
3	Henry Pelham	27 Aug 1743	06 Mar 1754	10Y 192D	Whig
4	Thomas Pelham-Holles	16 Mar 1754	11 Nov 1756	2Y 241D	Whig
5	William Cavendish	16 Nov 1756	29 Jun 1757	226D	Whig
6	Thomas Pelham-Holles	29 Jun 1757	26 May 1762	4Y 332D	Whig
7	John Stuart	26 May 1762	08 Apr 1763	318D	Tory
8	George Grenville	16 Apr 1763	10 Jul 1765	2Y 86D	Whig (Grenvillite)
9	Charles Watson-Wentworth	13 Jul 1765	30 Jul 1766	1Y 18D	Whig (Rockinghamite)
10	William Pitt the Elder	30 Jul 1766	14 Oct 1768	2Y 77D	Whig (Chathamite)
11	Augustus FitzRoy	14 Oct 1768	28 Jan 1770	1Y 107D	Whig (Chathamite)
12	Frederick North	28 Jan 1770	27 Mar 1782	12Y 59D	Tory (Northite)
13	Charles Watson-Wentworth	27 Mar 1782	01 Jul 1782	97D	Whig (Rockinghamite)
14	William Petty	04 Jul 1782	26 Mar 1783	266D	Whig (Chathamite)
15	William Cavendish-Bentinck	02 Apr 1783	18 Dec 1783	261D	Whig
16	William Pitt the Younger	19 Dec 1783	14 Mar 1801	17Y 86D	Tory (Pittite)
17	Henry Addington	17 Mar 1801	10 May 1804	3Y 55D	Tory (Addingtonian)
18	William Pit the Younger	10 May 1804	23 Jan 1806	1Y 259D	Tory (Pittite)
19	William Grenville	11 Feb 1806	25 Mar 1807	1Y 43D	Whig
20	William Cavendish-Bentinck	31 Mar 1807	04 Oct 1809	2Y 188D	Tory (Pittite)
21	Spencer Perceval	04 Oct 1809	11 May 1812	2Y 221D	Tory (Pittite)
22	Robert Jenkinson	08 Jun 1812	09 Apr 1827	14Y 306D	Tory (Pittite)
23	George Canning	12 Apr 1827	08 Aug 1827	119D	Tory (Canningite)
24	F. J. Robinson	31 Aug 1827	08 Jan 1828	131D	Tory (Canningite)
25	Arthur Wellesley	22 Jan 1828	16 Nov 1830	2Y 299D	Tory
26	Charles Grey	22 Nov 1830	09 Jul 1834	3Y 230D	Whig
27	William Lamb	16 Jul 1834	14 Nov 1834	122D	Whig
28	Arthur Wellesley	17 Nov 1834	09 Dec 1834	23D	Tory
29	Robert Peel	10 Dec 1834	08 Apr 1835	120D	Conservative
30	William Lamb	18 Apr 1835	30 Aug 1841	6Y 135D	Whig
31	Robert Peel	30 Aug 1841	29 Jun 1846	4Y 304D	Conservative
32	Lord John Russell	30 Jun 1846	21 Feb 1852	5Y 237D	Whig
33	Edward Smith-Stanley	23 Feb 1852	17 Dec 1852	299D	Conservative
34	George Hamilton-Gordon	19 Dec 1852	30 Jan 1855	2Y 43D	Peelite
35	Henry John Temple	06 Feb 1855	19 Feb 1858	3Y 14D	Whig
36	Edward Smith-Stanley	20 Feb 1858	11 Jun 1859	1Y 112D	Conservative
37	Henry John Temple	12 Jun 1859	18 Oct 1865	6Y 129D	Liberal
38	John Russell	29 Oct 1865	26 Jun 1866	241D	Liberal
39	Edward Smith-Stanley	28 Jun 1866	25 Feb 1868	1Y 243D	Conservative
40	Benjamin Disraeli	27 Feb 1868	01 Dec 1868	279D	Conservative
41	William Ewart Gladstone	03 Dec 1868	17 Feb 1874	5Y 77D	Liberal
42	Benjamin Disraeli	20 Feb 1874	21 Apr 1880	6Y 62D	Conservative
43	William Ewart Gladstone	23 Apr 1880	09 Jun 1885	5Y 48D	Liberal
44	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	23 Jun 1885	28 Jan 1886	220D	Conservative
45	William Ewart Gladstone	01 Feb 1886	20 Jul 1886	170D	Liberal
46	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	25 Jul 1886	11 Aug 1892	6Y 18D	Conservative
47	William Ewart Gladstone	15 Aug 1892	02 Mar 1894	1Y 200D	Liberal
48	Archibald Primrose	05 Mar 1894	22 Jun 1895	1Y 110D	Liberal
49	Robert Gascoyne-Cecil	25 Jun 1895	11 Jul 1902	7Y 17D	Conservative
50	Arthur Balfour	12 Jul 1902	04 Dec 1905	3Y 146D	Conservative
51	Henry Campbell-Bannerman	05 Dec 1905	03 Apr 1908	2Y 121D	Liberal
52	H. H. Asquith	08 Apr 1908	05 Dec 1916	8Y 243D	Liberal
53	David Lloyd George	06 Dec 1916	19 Oct 1922	5Y 318D	Liberal
54	Bonar Law	23 Oct 1922	20 May 1923	210D	Conservative (Scot.U.)
55	Stanley Baldwin	22 May 1923	22 Jan 1924	246D	Conservative
56	Ramsay MacDonald	22 Jan 1924	04 Nov 1924	288D	Labour
57	Stanley Baldwin	04 Nov 1924	04 Jun 1929	4Y 213D	Conservative
58	Ramsay MacDonald	05 Jun 1929	07 Jun 1935	6Y 3D	National Labour
59	Stanley Baldwin	07 Jun 1935	28 May 1937	1Y 356D	Conservative
60	Neville Chamberlain	28 May 1937	10 May 1940	2Y 349D	Conservative
61	Winston Churchill	10 May 1940	26 Jul 1945	5Y 78D	Conservative
62	Clement Attlee	26 Jul 1945	26 Oct 1951	6Y 93D	Labour
63	Winston Churchill	26 Oct 1951	05 Apr 1955	3Y 162D	Conservative
64	Anthony Eden	06 Apr 1955	09 Jan 1957	1Y 279D	Conservative
65	Harold Macmillan	10 Jan 1957	18 Oct 1963	6Y 282D	Conservative
66	Alec Douglas-Home	19 Oct 1963	16 Oct 1964	364D	Conservative (Scot.U.)
67	Harold Wilson	16 Oct 1964	19 Jun 1970	5Y 247D	Labour
68	Edward Heath	19 Jun 1970	04 Mar 1974	3Y 259D	Conservative
69	Harold Wilson	04 Mar 1974	05 Apr 1976	2Y 33D	Labour
70	James Callaghan	05 Apr 1976	04 May 1979	3Y 30D	Labour
71	Margaret Thatcher	04 May 1979	28 Nov 1990	11Y 209D	Conservative
72	John Major	28 Nov 1990	02 May 1997	6Y 156D	Conservative
73	Tony Blair	02 May 1997	27 Jun 2007	10Y 57D	Labour
74	Gordon Brown	27 Jun 2007	11 May 2010	2Y 319D	Labour
75	David Cameron	11 May 2010	13 Jul 2016	6Y 64D	Conservative
76	Theresa May	13 Jul 2016	24 Jul 2019	3Y 12D	Conservative
77	Boris Johnson	24 Jul 2019	06 Sep 2022	3Y 45D	Conservative
78	Liz Truss	06 Sep 2022	25 Oct 2022	50D	Conservative
79	Rishi Sunak	25 Oct 2022	~	~	Conservative

Living Former Prime Ministers of UK

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No.	Former Prime Minister	Service Year
1	John Major	1990–1997
2	Tony Blair	1997–2007
3	Gordon Brown	2007–2010
4	David Cameron	2010–2016
5	Theresa May	2016–2019
6	Boris Johnson	2019–2022
7	Liz Truss	Sep–Oct 2022

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