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Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister had called and unexpectedly lost the February 1974 general election.Although the Labour Party were able only to form a minority government, the following October 1974 general election saw them obtain a three-seat majority, and it was widely expected that Heath (who had led the party for the previous decade but lost three of the ...
The Party of Patriotism: The Conservative Party and the First World War (Ashgate, 2010) Laybourn, Keith. British political leaders: a biographical dictionary (2001). Powell, David. British Politics, 1910–1935: The Crisis of the Party System (2004) Ramsden, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics (2005) excerpt and ...
Addingtonian Tory: 1802: General election: 1804: Second Pitt ministry — William Pitt: Pittite Tory: Jan: 1806 Death Pitt dies: Feb: Ministry of All the Talents — Lord Grenville: Whig: Tory: Oct: General election: Mar: 1807 Second Portland ministry — Duke of Portland: Pittite Tory May: General election: Pittite Tory: 1809: Perceval ...
The Conservative Party is currently the primary opposition party in the United Kingdom. On the political spectrum the party has been described as right-wing [9] by various sources and as centre-right [10] by others, and encompasses various ideological factions including one-nation conservatives, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatives.
The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Kemi Badenoch , who was elected to the position on 2 November 2024, following her victory against Robert Jenrick in the party's ...
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher [nb 2] (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee shared the highest ranking. [ 3 ] In 2010, the University of Leeds and Woodnewton Associates carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics or British history, to rank the performance of all 12 prime ministers who served between 1945 and 2010.
[4] [6] [7] The previous shortest time served was George Canning, who served for less than four months before dying in office. [8] Margaret Thatcher , in office for 11 years and 208 days between 1979 and 1990, is the longest-serving prime minister in modern history, [ 3 ] and the longest-serving prime minister officially referred to as such.