List Of Prime Ministers Of The United Kingdom

This is a list of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom from when the first Prime Minister (in the modern sense), Robert Walpole , took office in 1721 , until the present day.

POLITICAL PARTY IDEOLOGIES

''' ( 1945 - 1951 ) was the second Labour Prime Minister and introduced the Post-war Consensus , Nationalised many utilities, and created the National Health Service .]]

During the 18th Century and until the middle of the foundation of the Conservative Party , neither political party, the Whig s and the Tories , could be described as a 'modern' political party in parliamentary democracies (with organised party discipline), more a grouping of similar political thought. The Whig party were inspired by the values of Liberal Democracy brought about by the Enlightenment , and consisted of the noble houses, wealthy merchants and non- Anglican s. The Tories generally consisted of the Landed Gentry and the Church Of England , and were opposed to the Reformism of the Whig party, such as increased representation for lower classes.

The Conservative Party as it exists today was founded in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel in his Tamworth Manifesto . The party has been consistently socially conservative but has shifted its position on economics, initially supporting free trade under Peel, then favouring Protectionism , then becoming the party of economic liberalism and reduced government after World War II .

The Liberal Party was formed after the collapse of the Whig party due to the enfranchisement of the British middle class following the Reform Act 1832 , and has typically been a reforming party. In its last government, from 1906 - 1922 , it introduced a number of social reforms including welfare, regulation of working hours and national insurance. The division of the Liberal Party in the early 1920s led many previous supporters to switch their allegiance to the Labour Party. The Liberal Democrats , the successor party to the Liberal Party, are socially liberal and typically support higher taxation to support the welfare state, but have an increasing faction of Neo-liberals .

The Labour Party was founded in 1900 to represent the views of the Working Class population and the Trade Union movement. The party has been traditionally Socialist or Social Democrat ic in outlook, proven by the introduction of the welfare state and central planning in the United Kingdom in the 1940s . Following the electoral success of Thatcherism in the 1980 s and the disastrous result of the 1983 General Election for the Labour Party and the electoral success of the SDP-Liberal Alliance , the Labour Party has moved towards a neo-liberal stance, as shown in the Third Way philosophy.

18TH CENTURY PRIME MINISTERS

Prime Ministers during the 18th century were Prime Minister of England , Wales and Scotland (the United Kingdom of Great Britain, formed by the '' Act Of Union 1707 '').

19TH CENTURY PRIME MINISTERS

Prime Ministers during the 19th century were Prime Minister of England , Wales , Scotland and Ireland , following the '' Act Of Union 1800 '' (which merged the Kingdom Of Ireland with the Kingdom Of Great Britain , forming the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland , as of 1 January , 1801 ).

20TH CENTURY PRIME MINISTERS

There was no change in the Jurisdiction of the Parliament Of The United Kingdom (and hence the area the Prime Minister was Prime Minister of) until 1922 , when following the Anglo-Irish War , 26 counties in Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom, forming the Irish Free State . The other 6 counties, in the northeast of Ireland, remained in the Union, becoming Northern Ireland . The official name of the United Kingdom became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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