Prime Ministers - United Kingdom

Complete list of all UK Prime Ministers since Robert Walpole in 1721, with party and term dates.

Prime Ministers

79
 

In office

Keir Starmer
 

Longest tenure

21 years
Robert Walpole
No. Name Party Start End Duration
1 Robert Walpole Whig 1721 1742 21 years
2 Spencer Compton Whig 1742 1743 1 year
3 Henry Pelham Whig 1743 1754 11 years
4 Thomas Pelham-Holles Whig 1754 1756 2 years
5 William Cavendish Whig 1756 1757 1 year
6 Thomas Pelham-Holles Whig 1757 1762 5 years
7 John Stuart Tory 1762 1763 1 year
8 George Grenville Whig 1763 1765 2 years
9 Charles Watson-Wentworth Whig 1765 1766 1 year
10 William Pitt l'Ancien Whig 1766 1768 2 years
11 Augustus Fitzroy Whig 1768 1770 2 years
12 Frederick North Tory 1770 1782 12 years
13 Charles Watson-Wentworth Whig 1782 1782 0 year
14 William Petty Whig 1782 1783 1 year
15 William H. Cavendish-Bentinck Whig 1783 1783 0 year
16 William Pitt le Jeune Tory 1783 1801 18 years
17 Henry Addington Tory 1801 1804 3 years
18 William Pitt le Jeune Tory 1804 1806 2 years
19 William Wyndham Grenville Whig 1806 1807 1 year
20 William H. Cavendish-Bentinck Tory 1807 1809 2 years
21 Spencer Perceval Tory 1809 1812 3 years
22 Robert Banks Jenkinson Tory 1812 1827 15 years
23 George Canning Tory 1827 1827 0 year
24 Frederick John Robinson Tory 1827 1828 1 year
25 Arthur Wellesley Tory 1828 1830 2 years
26 Charles Grey Whig 1830 1834 4 years
27 William Lamb Whig 1834 1834 0 year
28 Robert Peel Conservateur 1834 1835 1 year
29 William Lamb Whig 1835 1841 6 years
30 Robert Peel Conservateur 1841 1846 5 years
31 John Russell Libéral 1846 1852 6 years
32 Edward Stanley Conservateur 1852 1852 0 year
33 George Hamilton-Gordon Péelite 1852 1855 3 years
34 Henry John Temple Libéral 1855 1858 3 years
35 Edward Stanley Conservateur 1858 1859 1 year
36 Henry John Temple Libéral 1859 1865 6 years
37 John Russell Libéral 1865 1866 1 year
38 Edward Stanley Conservateur 1866 1868 2 years
39 Benjamin Disraeli Conservateur 1868 1868 0 year
40 William E. Gladstone Libéral 1868 1874 6 years
41 Benjamin Disraeli Conservateur 1874 1880 6 years
42 William E. Gladstone Libéral 1880 1885 5 years
43 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Conservateur 1885 1886 1 year
44 William E. Gladstone Libéral 1886 1886 0 year
45 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Conservateur 1886 1892 6 years
46 William E. Gladstone Libéral 1892 1894 2 years
47 Archibald Primrose Libéral 1894 1895 1 year
48 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Conservateur 1895 1902 7 years
49 Arthur Balfour Conservateur 1902 1905 3 years
50 Henry Campbell-Bannerman Libéral 1905 1908 3 years
51 Herbert Henry Asquith Libéral 1908 1916 8 years
52 David Lloyd George Libéral 1916 1922 6 years
53 Andrew Bonar Law Conservateur 1922 1923 1 year
54 Stanley Baldwin Conservateur 1923 1924 1 year
55 Ramsay MacDonald Travailliste 1924 1924 0 year
56 Stanley Baldwin Conservateur 1924 1929 5 years
57 Ramsay MacDonald Travailliste 1929 1935 6 years
58 Stanley Baldwin Conservateur 1935 1937 2 years
59 Neville Chamberlain Conservateur 1937 1940 3 years
60 Winston Churchill Conservateur 1940 1945 5 years
61 Clement Attlee Travailliste 1945 1951 6 years
62 Winston Churchill Conservateur 1951 1955 4 years
63 Anthony Eden Conservateur 1955 1957 2 years
64 Harold Macmillan Conservateur 1957 1963 6 years
65 Alec Douglas-Home Conservateur 1963 1964 1 year
66 Harold Wilson Travailliste 1964 1970 6 years
67 Edward Heath Conservateur 1970 1974 4 years
68 Harold Wilson Travailliste 1974 1976 2 years
69 James Callaghan Travailliste 1976 1979 3 years
70 Margaret Thatcher Conservateur 1979 1990 11 years
71 John Major Conservateur 1990 1997 7 years
72 Tony Blair Travailliste 1997 2007 10 years
73 Gordon Brown Travailliste 2007 2010 3 years
74 David Cameron Conservateur 2010 2016 6 years
75 Theresa May Conservateur 2016 2019 3 years
76 Boris Johnson Conservateur 2019 2022 3 years
77 Liz Truss Conservateur 2022 2022 0 year
78 Rishi Sunak Conservateur 2022 2024 2 years
79 Keir Starmer In office Travailliste 2024 — 2 years