List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom information
Top left: Robert Walpole, considered to be the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain.
Top right: Winston Churchill, prime minister during World War II.
Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher, first female prime minister.
Bottom right: Rishi Sunak, the incumbent, and first British Asian prime minister.
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet. There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over a period of time through a merger of duties.[1] The term was regularly, if informally, used of Robert Walpole by the 1730s.[2] It was used in the House of Commons as early as 1805,[3] and it was certainly in parliamentary use by the 1880s,[4] although did not become the official title until 1905.
Modern historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721,[5] as the first prime minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving British prime minister by this definition.[6] By the same consideration the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger at its creation on 1 January 1801.[7] The first to use the title in an official act was Benjamin Disraeli, who, in 1878, signed the Treaty of Berlin as "Prime Minister of Her Britannic Majesty".[8]
In 1905, the post of prime minister was officially given recognition in the order of precedence,[9] with the incumbent Henry Campbell-Bannerman the first officially referred to as "prime minister".
The first prime minister of the current United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland upon its effective creation in 1922 (when 26 Irish counties seceded and created the Irish Free State) was Bonar Law,[10] although the country was not renamed officially until 1927, when Stanley Baldwin was the serving prime minister.[11] The incumbent prime minister is Rishi Sunak, who assumed office on 25 October 2022.
^Hennessy 2001, pp. 39–40.
^Stephen Taylor ODNB.[full citation needed]
^Castlereagh 1805.
^Eardley-Wilmot 1885; Macfarlane 1885.
^Clarke 1999, p. 266; Hennessy 2001, pp. 39–40.
^BBC News 1998.
^Burt 1874, p. 106; Castlereagh 1805.
^Bogdanor 1997.
^Marriott 1923, p. 83.
^Law 1922.
^Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927.
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