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This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through the duration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922, and since then dealing with those of the present-day United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Rachel Johnson, Change UK candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom at South West England, daughter of Stanley, Jo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington (2010–2019), life peer (2020-), son of Stanley [1] Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting (1941–2016), Labour life peer.
Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. [12] By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, [12] and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), [13] served as lord protector to ...
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. Churchill's ranking was thus determined from his second term only. [4] [5]
A Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government held office from 2010 until 2015, the first coalition since 1945. [3] The coalition ended following parliamentary elections on 7 May 2015 , in which the Conservative Party won an outright majority of seats, 330 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, while their coalition partners lost ...
Since the Marquess of Salisbury in 1895, all time in parliamentary service before being prime minister has been in the House of Commons, apart from Sir Alec Douglas-Home's period as a member of the Government while in the House of Lords (1951–63; though he was previously the elected member for Lanark, 1931–1945).
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Members Prime ministers [α] Party control [β] Percentage of popular vote George III: 1 1801 none: co-opted: William Pitt: Tory: Henry Addington: 2 1802 General election: MPs: William Pitt: 3 1806 General election: MPs: The Lord Grenville: Whig: 4 1807 General election: MPs: The Duke of Portland: Tory: Spencer Perceval: The Earl of Liverpool ...