History

Past Prime Ministers

21st century


The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP

  • 2022 to 2024

The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

  • 2022 to 2022

The Rt Hon Boris Johnson

  • 2019 to 2022

The Rt Hon Theresa May

  • Conservative 2016 to 2019

The Rt Hon Lord Cameron

  • Conservative 2010 to 2016

The Rt Hon Gordon Brown

  • Labour 2007 to 2010

20th century


The Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair KG

  • Labour 1997 to 2007

The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH

  • Conservative 1990 to 1997

Baroness Thatcher

  • Conservative 1979 to 1990

James Callaghan

  • Labour 1976 to 1979

Harold Wilson

  • Labour 1974 to 1976
  • Labour 1964 to 1970

Sir Edward Heath

  • Conservative 1970 to 1974

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

  • Conservative 1963 to 1964

Harold Macmillan

  • Conservative 1957 to 1963

Sir Anthony Eden

  • Conservative 1955 to 1957

Sir Winston Churchill

  • Conservative 1951 to 1955
  • Conservative 1940 to 1945

Clement Attlee

  • Labour 1945 to 1951

Neville Chamberlain

  • Conservative 1937 to 1940

Stanley Baldwin

  • Conservative 1935 to 1937
  • Conservative 1924 to 1929
  • Conservative 1923 to 1924

James Ramsay MacDonald

  • Labour 1929 to 1935
  • Labour 1924 to 1924

Andrew Bonar Law

  • Conservative 1922 to 1923

David Lloyd George

  • Liberal 1916 to 1922

Herbert Henry Asquith

  • Liberal 1908 to 1916

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  • Liberal 1905 to 1908

Arthur James Balfour

  • Conservative 1902 to 1905

18th & 19th centuries


Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  • Conservative 1895 to 1902
  • Conservative 1886 to 1892
  • Conservative 1885 to 1886

William Ewart Gladstone

  • Liberal 1892 to 1894
  • Liberal 1886 to 1886
  • Liberal 1880 to 1885
  • Liberal 1868 to 1874

Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield

  • Conservative 1874 to 1880
  • Conservative 1868 to 1868

Edward Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

  • Tory and Whig 1866 to 1868
  • Tory and Whig 1858 to 1859
  • Tory and Whig 1852 to 1852

Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  • Whig 1865 to 1866
  • Whig 1846 to 1852

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  • Whig and Liberal 1859 to 1865
  • Whig and Liberal 1855 to 1858

George Hamilton Gordon Earl of Aberdeen

  • Conservative 1852 to 1855

Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet

  • Conservative 1841 to 1846
  • Conservative 1834 to 1835

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  • Whig 1835 to 1841
  • Whig 1834 to 1834

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

  • Tory 1834 to 1834
  • Tory 1828 to 1830

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

  • Whig 1830 to 1834

George Canning

  • Tory 1827 to 1827

Robert Banks Jenkinson Earl of Liverpool

  • Conservative 1812 to 1827

Spencer Perceval

  • Tory 1809 to 1812

William Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland

  • Whig 1807 to 1809
  • Whig 1783 to 1783

William Pitt 'The Younger'

  • Tory and Whig 1804 to 1806
  • Tory and Whig 1783 to 1801

George Grenville

  • Whig 1763 to 1765

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute

  • Tory 1762 to 1763

Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle

  • Whig 1757 to 1762
  • Whig 1754 to 1756

Henry Pelham

  • Whig 1743 to 1754

Sir Robert Walpole

  • Whig 1721 to 1742