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Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. [12] By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, [12] and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), [13] served as lord protector to ...
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest prime ministers for his leadership during the Second World War. Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, a Tory prime minister from 1812 to 1827, is ranked highly despite being called "the Arch-mediocrity" by later Conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The Prime Minister was initially reluctant to accept, but as both men realised that Chamberlain would never return to work, Churchill finally allowed him to resign. The Prime Minister asked if Chamberlain would accept the highest order of British chivalry, the Order of the Garter, of which his brother had been a member. Chamberlain refused ...
The previous coalition in the UK before 2010 was led by Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill during most of the Second World War, from May 1940 to May 1945. Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, served as deputy prime minister. [17]
Prime Minister: Himself: Preceded by: Robert Lowe: Succeeded by: Stafford Northcote: In office 18 June 1859 – 26 June 1866: Prime Minister: The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell: Preceded by: Benjamin Disraeli: Succeeded by: Benjamin Disraeli: In office 28 December 1852 – 28 February 1855: Prime Minister: The Earl of Aberdeen: Preceded ...
Churchill was a fierce critic of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler [83]: 149–150 and in private letters to Lloyd George (13 August) and Lord Moyne (11 September) just before the Munich Agreement, he wrote that the government was faced with a choice between "war and shame" and that, having chosen shame, would later get war on less ...
Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government in 1940 and served under Winston Churchill, initially as Lord Privy Seal and then as Deputy Prime Minister from 1942. [ note 1 ] The Labour Party, led by Attlee, won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election , on their post-war recovery platform.
Wilson was appointed prime minister for a second time; he called a snap election in October 1974, which gave Labour a small majority. During his second term as prime minister, Wilson oversaw the referendum that confirmed the UK's membership of the European Communities. In March 1976, Wilson suddenly announced his resignation as prime minister.