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UK Prime Minister
Most Important and Glorious Prime Ministers of the glorious Britannia
| Description | Prime Minister |
|---|---|
| Generally recognized as the first British Prime Minister | Robert Walpole |
| Set out the founding principles of the Conservative Party in the Tamworth Manifesto & led the new party to its 1st general election victory. The Irish Famine accelerated his decision to repeal the Corn Laws, promoting free trade by removing grain tariffs | Robert Peel |
| Britain's only Prime Minister of Jewish descent, he was also a successful novelist. He promoted a strong, imperial foreign policy including investment in the Suez Canal and the peace achieved at the Congress of Berlin | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Noted Liberal Prime Minister who passed a Third Reform Act and modernized the military but failed to achieve Irish Home Rule. Queen Victoria loathed him. | William Gladstone |
| Liberal PM who made sweeping reforms, including limiting the power of the unelected House of Lords with the Parliament Act in order to introduce the “People’s Budget” of 1911 which established state pensions. | H. H. Asquith |
| Taking control during World War I, he represented the UK at the Paris Peace Conference, leading to the Treaty of Versailles. | David Lloyd George |
| Best remembered as the UK’s wartime prime minister from the country’s isolation in 1940 to victory in 1945. Winning a 2nd term during the Korean War, he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature and wrote A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. | Winston Churchill |
| The UK’s first female prime minister was known as the “Iron Lady.” Her divisive conservative premiership saw the collapse of British heavy industry and its replacement by a services-based economy, especially focused on banking. Won the Falklands War | Margaret Thatcher |
| Won a famous landslide election victory in 1997 to end 18 years of Conservative rule as his “New Labour” movement abandoned traditional socialism and moved the Labour Party to the centre. Close friendship with George W. Bush led the UK to invade Iraq | Tony Blair |
| The American War of Independence was lost during his ministry. | Lord North |
| strengthened the role of the Prime Minister and pursued war against revolutionary France. | William Pitt the Younger |
| Prime Minister at the time of victory at the Battle of Waterloo and faced social turmoil including the Peterloo Massacre of protesters in Manchester. | Lord Liverpool |
| a long-serving Secretary of State and the first Prime Minister of the Liberal Party that succeeded the Whigs. He kept Britain neutral during the American Civil War. | Lord Palmerston |
| signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler and promised “peace for our time” with a policy of appeasement. British military failures in 1940 led to his replacement by Churchill. | Neville Chamberlain |
| said “you’ve never had it so good” as the British economy recovered in the late 1950s. Later he purged his cabinet in a mass sacking dubbed the “Night of the Long Knives.” | Harold Macmillan |
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