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Articles listed by political party contain information on the ministries of multiple consecutive prime ministers of the same political party. Prior to the 20th century, the leader of the British government held the title of First Lord of the Treasury , and not that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
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The UK's membership in the Union has been a major topic of debate over the years and has been objected to over questions of sovereignty, [87] and in recent years there have been divisions in both major parties over whether the UK should form greater ties within the EU, or reduce the EU's supranational powers.
UK Independence Party: 1993 2012 2016 N/A: 1 (2012) David McNarry: UK Unionist Party: 1995 1998 2007 2008 5 (1998) Norman Boyd; Roger Hutchinson; Robert McCartney; Patrick Roche; Cedric Wilson: Ulster Democratic Party: 1981 1996 1998 2001 2 (1996) John White, Gary McMichael: Ulster Popular Unionist Party: 1980 1982 1986 1993 1 (1992) James ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
The government of the United Kingdom, officially His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government, is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [2] [3] The government is led by the prime minister (Keir Starmer since 5 July 2024) who selects all the other ministers.
May promised social reform and a more centrist political outlook for the Conservative Party and its government. [135] May's early cabinet appointments were interpreted as an effort to reunite the party in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union. [136] She began the process of withdrawing the UK from the European Union in March ...
^a Leads the party in the House of Commons. The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), John Swinney has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999. ^b In accordance with the party's policy of abstentionism, no elected Sinn Féin members of parliament have ever sat in the House of Commons. ^c Leads the party in the House of ...