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The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Andrew Bonar Law, [10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister. [11]
As a result, he was not a candidate for prime minister when Chamberlain resigned on 10 May 1940 after the Narvik Debate and Churchill became prime minister. [100] Churchill appointed Eden Secretary of State for War .
The Macmillan Diaries Vol II: Prime Minister and After 1957–1966 (London: Macmillan, 2011) ISBN 1-405-04721-6 Macmillan burned his diary for the climax of the Suez Affair, supposedly at Eden's request, although in Campbell's view more likely to protect his own reputation.
Prime Minister: Himself: Preceded by: Stafford Northcote: Succeeded by: Hugh Childers: In office 11 August 1873 – 17 February 1874: Prime Minister: Himself: Preceded by: Robert Lowe: Succeeded by: Stafford Northcote: In office 18 June 1859 – 26 June 1866: Prime Minister: The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell: Preceded by: Benjamin ...
Winston Churchill: Prime Minister 1940-5 and '5105: The Second World War: 1948-53: Cassell: Alec Douglas-Home: Prime Minister 1963-4: The Way the Wind Blows: An Autobiography by Lord Home: 1976: Fontana: Alan Duncan: MP for Rutland and Melton 1992-2019: In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister: 2021: HarperCollins Anthony Eden ...
Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government in 1940 and served under Winston Churchill, initially as Lord Privy Seal and then as Deputy Prime Minister from 1942. [ note 1 ] The Labour Party, led by Attlee, won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election , on their post-war recovery platform.
After becoming prime minister, Douglas-Home returned to the Commons by winning a by-election on the recess death of MP Gilmour Leburn. Uniquely, Cameron 's brief parliamentary activity as Foreign Secretary from November 2023 to July 2024 was served while a member of the House of Lords .
Chamberlain worked to bring his Conservative Party in line behind Churchill, working with the Chief Whip, David Margesson, to overcome members' suspicions and dislikes of the Prime Minister. On 4 July, after the British attack on the French fleet, Churchill entered the chamber to a great cheer from Conservative MPs orchestrated by the two, and ...