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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