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  2. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Anthony Eden - Wikipedia

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    As prime minister, Eden was notorious for telephoning ministers and newspaper editors from 6 a.m. onward. Rothwell wrote that even before Suez, the telephone had become "a drug": "During the Suez Crisis Eden's telephone mania exceeded all bounds". [211] Eden was notoriously "unclubbable" and offended Churchill by declining to join The Other Club.

  4. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure

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    Sir Winston Churchill: Conservative 10 May 1940 26 July 1945 5 years, 78 days 8 years, 240 days Defeated in election [5] 26 October 1951 5 April 1955 3 years, 162 days Resigned due to illness 13 Harold Wilson: Labour 16 October 1964 19 June 1970 5 years, 247 days 7 years, 280 days Defeated in election [11] 4 March 1974 5 April 1976

  5. Historical rankings of prime ministers of the United Kingdom

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    In December 1999, a BBC Radio 4 poll of 20 prominent historians, politicians and commentators for The Westminster Hour produced the verdict that Churchill was the best British prime minister of the 20th century, with Lloyd George in second place and Clement Attlee in third place. As Blair was still in office he was not ranked.

  6. Timeline of prime ministers of Great Britain and the United ...

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    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 .

  7. Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Neville Chamberlain (/ ˈ tʃ eɪ m b ər l ɪ n /; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940.

  8. Clement Attlee - Wikipedia

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    After leading Labour to a narrow victory at the 1950 general election, he sent British troops to fight alongside South Korea in the Korean War. [ note 3 ] Despite his social reforms and economic programme, the pre-existing wartime shortages of food, housing and resources persisted throughout his premiership, alongside recurrent currency crises ...

  9. H. H. Asquith - Wikipedia

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    [132] Churchill wrote to Asquith after the second 1910 election, "your leadership was the main and conspicuous feature of the whole fight". [129] Matthew, in his article on Asquith, found that, "the episode was the zenith of Asquith's prime ministerial career. In the British Liberal tradition, he patched rather than reformulated the ...