Since 1721
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- Labour (6)
- Scottish Unionists (2)
- National Labour (1)
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| Portrait | Prime minister Office (Lifespan) |
Term of office | Mandate[a] | Ministerial offices held as prime minister | Party | Government | Monarch Reign | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | ||||||||
| | [1]
|
3 April 1730 |
11 February 1742 |
11 years, 315 days | 1730 | Whig | Robinson– |
George I r. 1714–1727 | ||
| 1732 | George II r. 1727–1760 | |||||||||
| 1734 | Robinson | |||||||||
| 1741 | ||||||||||
[2]
|
16 February 1742 |
2 July 1743 |
1 year, 137 days[b] | — | Shirley | |||||
[3]
|
27 August 1743 |
6 March 1754 |
10 years, 192 days[b] | — | Reynolds I | |||||
| 1747 | Reynolds II | |||||||||
[4]
|
16 March 1754 |
11 November 1756 |
2 years, 241 days | 1754 | Livingston I | |||||
[5]
|
16 November 1756 |
29 June 1757 |
226 days | — | Franklin– | |||||
| 1757 Caretaker | ||||||||||
[6]
|
29 June 1757 |
26 May 1762 |
4 years, 332 days | 1761 | Franklin– | |||||
| Murray– |
George III r. 1760–1820 | |||||||||
[7]
|
26 May 1762 |
8 April 1763 |
318 days | — | Tory | Murray | ||||
[8]
|
16 April 1763 |
10 July 1765 |
2 years, 86 days | — | Whig | Nelson (mainly Whig) | ||||
[9]
|
13 July 1765 |
30 July 1766 |
1 year, 18 days | — | Whig | Henry I | ||||
[10]
|
30 July 1766 |
14 October 1768 |
2 years, 77 days | 1768 | Whig | Franklin | ||||
[11]
|
14 October 1768 |
28 January 1770 |
1 year, 107 days | — | Adams | |||||
[12]
|
28 January 1770 |
27 March 1782 |
12 years, 59 days | 1774 | Tory | Middleton | ||||
| 1780 | ||||||||||
[9]
|
27 March 1782 |
1 July 1782 |
97 days | — | Whig | Henry II | ||||
[13]
|
4 July 1782 |
26 March 1783 |
266 days | — | Whig | Shelburne | ||||
[14]
|
2 April 1783 |
18 December 1783 |
261 days | — | Whig | Fox–North | ||||
[15]
|
19 December 1783 |
14 March 1801 |
17 years, 86 days | 1784 | Tory (Pittite) |
Pitt I | ||||
| 1790 | ||||||||||
| 1796 | ||||||||||
[16]
|
17 March 1801 |
10 May 1804 |
3 years, 55 days | 1801 | Tory | Addington | ||||
| 1802 | ||||||||||
[17]
|
10 May 1804 |
23 January 1806 |
1 year, 259 days[b] | — | Tory (Pittite) |
Pitt II | ||||
[18]
|
11 February 1806 |
25 March 1807 |
1 year, 43 days | 1806 | Whig | All the Talents | ||||
[19]
|
31 March 1807 |
4 October 1809 |
2 years, 188 days | 1807 | Tory (Pittite) |
Portland II | ||||
[20]
|
4 October 1809 |
11 May 1812 |
2 years, 221 days[b] | — | Perceval | |||||
[21]
|
8 June 1812 |
9 April 1827 |
14 years, 306 days | 1812 | Liverpool | |||||
| 1818 | George IV r. 1820–1830 | |||||||||
| 1820 | ||||||||||
| 1826 | ||||||||||
[22]
|
12 April 1827 |
8 August 1827 |
119 days[b] | — | Tory | Canning | ||||
[23]
|
31 August 1827 |
8 January 1828 |
131 days | — | Tory | Goderich | ||||
[24]
|
22 January 1828 |
16 November 1830 |
2 years, 299 days | — | Tory | Wellington– | ||||
| (1830) | William IV r. 1830–1837 | |||||||||
[25]
|
22 November 1830 |
9 July 1834 |
3 years, 230 days | 1831 | Whig | Grey | ||||
| 1832 | ||||||||||
[26]
|
16 July 1834 |
14 November 1834 |
122 days | — | Melbourne I | |||||
[27]
|
17 November 1834 |
9 December 1834 |
23 days | (—) | Tory | Wellington Caretaker | ||||
[28]
|
10 December 1834 |
8 April 1835 |
120 days | (—) | Conservative | Peel I | ||||
[29]
|
18 April 1835 |
30 August 1841 |
6 years, 135 days | 1835 | Whig | Melbourne II | ||||
| 1837 | Victoria r. 1837–1901 | |||||||||
[28]
|
30 August 1841 |
29 June 1846 |
4 years, 304 days | 1841 | Conservative | Peel II | ||||
[30]
|
30 June 1846 |
21 February 1852 |
5 years, 237 days | (1847) | Whig | Russell I | ||||
[31]
|
23 February 1852 |
17 December 1852 |
299 days | 1852 | Conservative | Who? Who? | ||||
[32]
|
19 December 1852 |
30 January 1855 |
2 years, 43 days | (—) | Peelite | Aberdeen | ||||
[33]
|
6 February 1855 |
19 February 1858 |
3 years, 14 days | 1857 | Whig | Palmerston I | ||||
[34]
|
20 February 1858 |
11 June 1859 |
1 year, 112 days | (—) | Conservative | Derby– | ||||
[35]
|
12 June 1859 |
18 October 1865 |
6 years, 129 days[b] | 1859 | Liberal | Palmerston II | ||||
| 1865 | ||||||||||
[30]
|
29 October 1865 |
26 June 1866 |
241 days | — | Russell II | |||||
[36]
|
28 June 1866 |
25 February 1868 |
1 year, 243 days | (—) | Conservative | Derby– | ||||
[37]
|
27 February 1868 |
1 December 1868 |
279 days | (—) | ||||||
[38]
|
3 December 1868 |
17 February 1874 |
5 years, 77 days | 1868 |
|
Liberal | Gladstone I | |||
[39]
|
20 February 1874 |
21 April 1880 |
6 years, 62 days | 1874 | Conservative | Disraeli II | ||||
[40]
|
23 April 1880 |
9 June 1885 |
5 years, 48 days | 1880 |
|
Liberal | Gladstone II | |||
[41]
|
23 June 1885 |
28 January 1886 |
220 days | (—) | Conservative | Salisbury I | ||||
[40]
|
1 February 1886 |
20 July 1886 |
170 days | (1885) | Liberal | Gladstone III | ||||
[42]
|
25 July 1886 |
11 August 1892 |
6 years, 18 days | (1886) |
|
Conservative | Salisbury II | |||
[40]
|
15 August 1892 |
2 March 1894 |
1 year, 200 days | (1892) | Liberal | Gladstone IV | ||||
[43]
|
5 March 1894 |
22 June 1895 |
1 year, 110 days | (—) | Rosebery | |||||
[44]
|
25 June 1895 |
11 July 1902 |
7 years, 17 days | 1895 |
|
Conservative | Salisbury III | |||
| 1900 | Salisbury IV (Con– | |||||||||
| Edward VII r. 1901–1910 | ||||||||||
[45]
|
12 July 1902 |
4 December 1905 |
3 years, 146 days | — | Balfour (Con– | |||||
[46]
|
5 December 1905 |
3 April 1908 |
2 years, 121 days | 1906 | Liberal | Campbell-Bannerman | ||||
[47]
|
8 April 1908 |
5 December 1916 |
8 years, 243 days | — | Asquith I | |||||
| (Jan.1910) | Asquith II | George V r. 1910–1936 | ||||||||
| (Dec.1910) | Asquith III | |||||||||
| (—) | Asquith Coalition | |||||||||
[48]
|
6 December 1916 |
19 October 1922 |
5 years, 318 days | (—) | Lloyd George War | |||||
| 1918 | Lloyd George II | |||||||||
[49]
|
23 October 1922 |
20 May 1923 |
210 days | 1922 | Conservative (Scot.U.) |
Law | ||||
[50]
|
22 May 1923 |
22 January 1924 |
246 days | — | Conservative | Baldwin I | ||||
[51]
|
22 January 1924 |
4 November 1924 |
288 days | (1923) | Labour | MacDonald I | ||||
[52]
|
4 November 1924 |
4 June 1929 |
4 years, 213 days | 1924 | Conservative | Baldwin II | ||||
[53]
|
5 June 1929 |
7 June 1935 |
6 years, 3 days | (1929) | Labour | MacDonald II | ||||
| (—) | National Labour | National I | ||||||||
| 1931 | National II | |||||||||
| | [54]
|
7 June 1935 |
28 May 1937 |
1 year, 356 days | 1935 | Conservative | National III | |||
| Edward VIII r. 1936 | ||||||||||
| George VI r. 1936–1952 | ||||||||||
[55]
|
28 May 1937 |
10 May 1940 |
2 years, 349 days | — | National IV | |||||
| Chamberlain War | ||||||||||
[56]
|
10 May 1940 |
26 July 1945 |
5 years, 78 days | — | Churchill War | |||||
| Churchill Caretaker | ||||||||||
[57]
|
26 July 1945 |
26 October 1951 |
6 years, 93 days | 1945 |
|
Labour | Attlee I | |||
| 1950 | Attlee II | |||||||||
[58]
|
26 October 1951 |
5 April 1955 |
3 years, 162 days | 1951 |
|
Conservative | Churchill III | |||
| Elizabeth II r. 1952–2022 | ||||||||||
[59]
|
6 April 1955 |
9 January 1957 |
1 year, 279 days | 1955 | Eden | |||||
[60]
|
10 January 1957 |
18 October 1963 |
6 years, 282 days | — | Macmillan I | |||||
| 1959 | Macmillan II | |||||||||
[61][f]
|
18 October 1963 |
16 October 1964 |
365 days | — | Conservative (Scot.U.) |
Douglas-Home | ||||
[62]
|
16 October 1964 |
19 June 1970 |
5 years, 247 days | 1964 | Labour | Wilson I | ||||
| 1966 | Wilson II | |||||||||
[63]
|
19 June 1970 |
4 March 1974 |
3 years, 259 days | 1970 | Conservative | Heath | ||||
[62]
|
4 March 1974 |
5 April 1976 |
2 years, 33 days | (Feb.1974) | Labour | Wilson III | ||||
| Oct.1974 | Wilson IV | |||||||||
[64]
|
5 April 1976 |
4 May 1979 |
3 years, 30 days | — | Callaghan | |||||
[65]
|
4 May 1979 |
28 November 1990 |
11 years, 209 days | 1979 | Conservative | Thatcher I | ||||
| 1983 | Thatcher II | |||||||||
| 1987 | Thatcher III | |||||||||
[66]
|
28 November 1990 |
2 May 1997 |
6 years, 156 days | — | Major I | |||||
| 1992 | Major II | |||||||||
[67]
|
2 May 1997 |
27 June 2007 |
10 years, 57 days | 1997 | Labour | Blair I | ||||
| 2001 | Blair II | |||||||||
| 2005 | Blair III | |||||||||
[68]
|
27 June 2007 |
11 May 2010 |
2 years, 319 days | — | Brown | |||||
[69]
|
11 May 2010 |
13 July 2016 |
6 years, 64 days | (2010) | Conservative | Cameron–Clegg | ||||
| 2015 | Cameron II | |||||||||
[70]
|
13 July 2016 |
24 July 2019 |
3 years, 12 days | — | May I | |||||
| (2017) | May II | |||||||||
[71]
|
24 July 2019 |
6 September 2022 |
3 years, 45 days | (—) | Johnson I | |||||
| 2019 | Johnson II | |||||||||
[72]
|
6 September 2022 |
25 October 2022 |
50 days | — | Truss | |||||
| Charles III r. 2022–present | ||||||||||
[73]
|
25 October 2022 |
Incumbent | 3 years, 229 days | — | Sunak | |||||
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- ↑ Pitt contested a different constituency in the 1784 British general election.
- ↑ Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876, two years into his second premiership. Consequently, he relinquished his Commons seat as MP for Buckinghamshire.
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