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PBHS British PM
British Prime Ministers
Term | Definition |
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Recognized as 1st British Prime Minister | Walpole (Robert) |
Tamworth Manifesto and repealed Corn Laws | Peel (Robert) |
Only PM of Jewish descent; successful novelist; leader of House of Commons --Second Reform Act | Disraeli (Benjamin) |
Liberal; passed Third Reform Act; loathed by Queen Victoria; | Gladstone (William) |
Rep of UK at Paris Peace Conference leading to Treaty of Versailles | David Lloyd George |
Chancellor of the Exechequer | Lloyd George |
First Lord of the Admiralty | Winston Churchill |
put UK on gold standard; won Nobel Prize for Literature | Churchill |
wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" | Churchill |
Founded the modern welfare state | Attlee (Clement) |
the "Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher |
Winning of Falkland Wars | Thatcher |
only female PM; died in 2013 | Thatcher |
"New Labour" movement--his victory in 1997 ended 18 years of Conservative rule | Tony Blair |
close association w George W led to UK joining 2003 invasion of Iraq | Tony Blair |