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The current prime minister is Sir Keir Starmer, who succeeded Rishi Sunak on 5 July 2024, following the 2024 general election. [8] History. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been the first person to hold the position of Prime Minister.
Modern historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first prime minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving British prime minister by this definition.
Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister on 25 October 2022. He was previously appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022.
Sep 6, 2022 · Liz Truss officially became the UK’s new prime minister today after meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Truss, the foreign secretary for the past year, defeated rival...
1 day ago · Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent. Robert Walpole (1721–42) Spencer Compton (1742–43) Henry Pelham (1743–54) Thomas Pelham-Holles (1754–56; 1st time) William Cavendish (1756–57)
2 days ago · Britain’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory Friday morning, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years in an anti-incumbent revolt that heralded a new era in British ...
With effect from 1 January 1801, Great Britain and Ireland were united into a single kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Parliament of Ireland came to an end, and until 1922 British ministers were responsible for all three kingdoms of the British Isles.
