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British PMs

You Gotta Know These British Prime Ministers

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The first generally recognized British Prime Minister who established personal control on behalf of the German-speaking George I Robert Walpole
Walpole's downfall occurred during this war because he tried to avoid British military commitments worldwide War of the Austrian Succession
The PM who set out the founding principles of the Conservative Party in the Tamworth Manifesto Robert Peel
The laws promoting free trade by removing grain tariffs that Peel repealed due to the Irish Famine, losing him party support Corn Laws
Britain’s only Prime Minister of Jewish descent, also a successful novelist, known for an imperial foreign policy including the Suez Canal investment Benjamin Disraeli
The PM instrumental in the passage of the Second Reform Act as leader of the House of Commons Benjamin Disraeli
The noted Liberal PM whom Queen Victoria loathed, who passed a Third Reform Act but failed to achieve Irish Home Rule William Gladstone
The Liberal PM whose campaign sensationalized the “Bulgarian horrors” and sought to resolve the “Eastern Question” regarding the Ottoman Empire William Gladstone
The Liberal PM who introduced the "People's Budget" of 1911 and limited the power of the House of Lords with the Parliament Act H. H. Asquith
The PM who was forced to resign during WWI in favor of David Lloyd George because he was not a successful wartime leader H. H. Asquith
A native Welsh speaker who represented the U.K. at the Paris Peace Conference, leading to the Treaty of Versailles David Lloyd George
The PM whose coalition government collapsed due to embarrassment over the independence of Ireland and a scandal over the sale of honors David Lloyd George
The U.K.'s wartime PM from 1940-1945 who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature Winston Churchill
The PM who, as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Stanley Baldwin, put the U.K. back on the gold standard Winston Churchill
The Labour PM who won a huge landslide victory in 1945 and founded the modern welfare state based on the Beveridge Report Clement Attlee
The PM whose minister, Nye Bevan, established the National Health Service (NHS) Clement Attlee
The U.K.’s first female prime minister, known as the "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was re-elected in 1983 after winning this conflict Falklands War
The PM whose clashes with mine workers' leader Arthur Scargill defined her domestic policy Margaret Thatcher
The "New Labour" PM who moved the Labour Party to the center, ended 18 years of Conservative rule, and led the U.K. into the Iraq invasion in 2003 Tony Blair
The PM whose domestic legacy included higher public spending and the devolution of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Tony Blair
The PM during whose ministry the American War of Independence was lost Lord North
The PM who strengthened the role of the Prime Minister and pursued war against revolutionary France William Pitt the Younger
The PM at the time of victory at the Battle of Waterloo who faced social turmoil including the Peterloo Massacre Lord Liverpool
The first PM of the Liberal Party who kept Britain neutral during the American Civil War Lord Palmerston
The PM who signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, promising “peace for our time” with a policy of appeasement Neville Chamberlain
The PM who famously said “you’ve never had it so good” as the British economy recovered in the late 1950s Harold Macmillan
The PM who resigned after the Brexit vote in 2016 David Cameron
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