Prime ministers
edit- Conservative (20)
- Whig (16)
- Tory (10)
- Labour (7)
- Liberal (6)
- Scottish Unionists (2)
- National Labour (1)
- National Liberal (1)
- Peelite (1)
| Portrait | Prime minister Office (lifespan) |
Term of office | Mandate[a] | Ministerial offices held as prime minister | Party | Government | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | |||||||
[1]
|
19 June 1970 |
10 October 1974 |
4 years, 114 days | 1970 | Liberal Party | Thorpe | |||
[1]
|
10 October 1974 |
05 April 1976 |
1 year, 179 days | 1974 | Labour Party | Castle | |||
[2]
|
5 April 1976 |
4 April 1982 |
6 years, 0 days | 1976 | Liberal | Whitehouse I | |||
| 1981 | Whitehouse II | ||||||||
[3]
|
5 April 1982 |
4 April 1997 |
14 years, 336 days | 1982 | Conservative | Thatcher I | |||
| 1987 | Thatcher II | ||||||||
| 1992 | Thatcher III | ||||||||
[1]
|
5 April 1997 |
04 April 2002 |
5 years, 0 days | 1997 | Labour | Blair | |||
[4]
|
11 May 2010 |
13 July 2016 |
6 years, 64 days | (2010) | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg | |||
| 2015 | Cameron II | ||||||||
[5]
|
13 July 2016 |
24 July 2019 |
3 years, 12 days | — | May I | ||||
| (2017) | May II (DUP confidence & supply) | ||||||||
[6]
|
24 July 2019 |
6 September 2022 |
3 years, 45 days | (—) | Johnson I (DUP confidence & supply) | ||||
| 2019 | Johnson II | ||||||||
[7]
|
6 September 2022 |
25 October 2022 |
50 days | — | Truss | ||||
[8]
|
25 October 2022 |
5 July 2024 |
1 year, 255 days | — | Sunak | ||||
[9]
|
5 July 2024 |
Incumbent | 2 years, 1 day | 2024 | Labour | Starmer | |||
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<ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).- 1 2 3 Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 343; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 322–328; UK Parliament 2005a.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 333; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 313–320.
- ↑ Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p. 358; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp. 340–347; UK Parliament 2013.
- ↑ Butler & Butler 2010, pp. 61, 65; Lee & Beech 2011; Royal Communications 2016; Wheeler 2016.
- ↑ BBC News 2017; Stamp 2016; UK Parliament 2017a.
- ↑ BBC News 2019; Kuenssberg 2019; UK Parliament 2022.
- ↑ BBC News 2022a; Nevett & Whannel 2022; UK Parliament 2024a.
- ↑ BBC News 2022b; Nevett 2022; UK Parliament 2024b.
- ↑ BBC News 2024c; UK Parliament 2024e.