Prime Minister

One holder at a time · 71 terms · 1765–present

Current holder

Previous holders 70

Keir Starmer 2024–2026 Rishi Sunak 2022–2024 Liz Truss 2022 Boris Johnson 2019–2022 Theresa May 2016–2019 David Cameron 2010–2016 Gordon Brown 2007–2010 Tony Blair 1997–2007 John Major 1990–1997 Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990 James Callaghan 1976–1979 Harold Wilson 1974–1976 Edward Heath 1970–1974 Harold Wilson 1964–1970 Alec Douglas-Home 1963–1964 Harold Macmillan 1957–1963 Anthony Eden 1955–1957 Winston Churchill 1951–1955 Clement Attlee 1945–1951 Winston Churchill 1940–1945 Neville Chamberlain 1937–1940 Stanley Baldwin 1935–1937 Ramsay MacDonald 1929–1935 Stanley Baldwin 1924–1929 Ramsay MacDonald 1924 Stanley Baldwin 1923–1924 Andrew Bonar Law 1922–1923 David Lloyd George 1916–1922 H. H. Asquith 1908–1916 Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1905–1908 Arthur Balfour 1902–1905 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1895–1902 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894–1895 William Ewart Gladstone 1892–1894 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1886–1892 William Ewart Gladstone 1886 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1885–1886 William Ewart Gladstone 1880–1885 Benjamin Disraeli 1874–1880 William Ewart Gladstone 1868–1874 Benjamin Disraeli 1868 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1866–1868 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865–1866 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1859–1865 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1858–1859 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1855–1858 George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1852–1855 Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby 1852 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1846–1852 Robert Peel 1841–1846 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1835–1841 Robert Peel 1834–1835 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1834 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1834 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 1830–1834 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1828–1830 F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich 1827–1828 George Canning 1827 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool 1812–1827 Spencer Perceval 1809–1812 William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1807–1809 William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 1806–1807 William Pitt the Younger 1804–1806 Henry Addington 1801–1804 William Pitt the Younger 1801 William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1783 William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne 1782–1783 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1782 Frederick North, Lord North 1770–1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1765–1766

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