1721-42 Sir Robert Walpole / Whig
1742-43 Earl of Wilmington / Whig
1743-54 Henry Pelham / Whig
1754-56 Duke of Newcastle / Whig
1756-57 Duke of Devonshire / Whig
1757-62 Duke of Newcastle / Whig
1762-63 Earl of Bute / Tory
1763-65 George Grenville / Whig
1765-66 Marquess of Rockingham / Whig
1767-70 Duke of Grafton / Whig
1770-82 Lord North / Tory
1782 Marquess of Rockingham / Whig
1782-83 Earl of Shelburne / Whig
1783 Duke of Portland / coalition
1783-1801 William Pitt the Younger / Tory
1801-04 Henry Addington / Tory
1804-06 William Pitt the Younger / Tory
1806-07 Lord Grenville / coalition
1807-09 Duke of Portland / Tory
1809-12 Spencer Perceval / Tory
1812-27 Earl of Liverpool / Tory
1827 George Canning / coalition
1827-28 Viscount Goderich / Tory
1828-30 Duke of Wellington / Tory
1830-34 Earl Grey / Whig
1834 Viscount Melbourne / Whig
1834-35 Sir Robert Peel / Whig
1835-41 Viscount Melbourne / Whig
1841-46 Sir Robert Peel / Conservative
1846-52 Lord Russell / Liberal
1852 Earl of Derby / Conservative
1852-55 Lord Aberdeen / Peelite
1855-58 Viscount Palmerston / Liberal
1858-59 Earl of Derby / Conservative
1859-65 Viscount Palmerston / Liberal
1865-66 Lord Russell / Liberal
1866-68 Earl of Derby / Conservative
1868 Benjamin Disraeli / Conservative
1868-74 W E Gladstone / Liberal
1874-80 Benjamin Disraeli / Conservative
1880-85 W E Gladstone / Liberal
1885-86 Marquess of Salisbury / Conservative
1886 W E Gladstone / Liberal
1886-92 Marquess of Salisbury / Conservative
1892-94 W E Gladstone / Liberal
1894-95 Earl of Rosebery / Liberal
1895-1902 Marquess of Salisbury / Conservative
1902-05 Arthur James Balfour / Conservative
1905-08 Sir H Campbell-Bannerman / Liberal
1908-15 H H Asquith / Liberal
1915-16 H H Asquith / coalition
1916-22 David Lloyd George / coalition
1922-23 Andrew Bonar Law / Conservative
1923-24 Stanley Baldwin / Conservative
1924 Ramsay MacDonald / Labour
1924-29 Stanley Baldwin / Conservative
1929-31 Ramsey MacDonald / Labour
1931-35 Ramsey MacDonald / national coalition
1935-37 Stanley Baldwin / national coalition
1937-40 Neville Chamberlain / national coalition
1940-45 Sir Winston Churchill / coalition
1945-51 Clement Attlee / Labour
1951-55 Sir Winston Churchill / Conservative
1955-57 Sir Anthony Eden / Conservative
1957-63 Harold Macmillan / Conservative
1963-64 Sir Alec Douglas-Home / Conservative
1964-70 Harold Wilson / Labour
1970-74 Edward Heath / Conservative
1974-76 Harold Wilson / Labour
1976-79 James Callaghan / Labour
1979-90 Margaret Thatcher / Conservative
1990-97 John Major / Conservative
1997- 2007 Tony Blair / Labour
2007- Gordon Brown / Labour
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