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First Minister: Michelle O'Neill: 3 February 2024 (12 months ago) () Sinn Féin [3] Deputy First Minister: Emma Little-Pengelly: Democratic Unionist Party Scotland: First Minister: John Swinney: 8 May 2024 (9 months ago) () Scottish National Party [4] Wales: First Minister: Eluned Morgan: 6 August 2024 (6 months ago) () Welsh Labour [5]
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 ...
Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates: Constitutional monarchy 11 February 2006 18 years, 363 days Viktor Orbán: Prime Minister of Hungary: Parliamentary republic 29 May 2010 14 years, 255 days Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed: Prime Minister of Djibouti: Presidential republic: 1 April 2013 11 years, 313 days Edi Rama: Prime Minister of Albania
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (and preceding positions, 1889–2001) Minister of Technology (1964–1970) First Lord of the Admiralty (1709–1964) See also Admiralty. Paymaster General (1834–present) Master-General of the Ordnance (1544–1855) President of the Board of Trade (1696–1782; 1784–present)
If the prime minister resigns mid-term, and their party has a majority in the Commons, the party selects a new leader according to its rules, and this new leader is invited by the monarch to become the new prime minister. The outgoing prime minister is likely to remain in post until the new leader has been chosen by the party.
Appointment and dismissal of prime ministers are common reserve powers that can be exercised by the King or his governors-general. To date, Charles has appointed six new prime ministers, the first being Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 25 October 2022 and the most recent being Sir Keir Starmer to the same office on 5 July ...
David Lloyd George was Welsh and a first-language Welsh speaker, but was born in England. No prime minister has ever been born in Northern Ireland, Wales, or South West England. Four prime ministers were born outside the modern United Kingdom, the most recent being Boris Johnson (2019–2022).
Following Labour's victory in the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the new prime minister Keir Starmer informally met England's combined authority mayors and the mayor of London on 9 July. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The first formal meeting of the Mayoral Council, chaired by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner , took place on 10 October 2024 in ...