There also isn’t a requirement for the Prime Minister to have won a general election as a party leader before they come into office, or to stay in office.

Courthope, William, ed. (1838). Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (22nded.). London, UK: J. G. & F. Rivington – via the Internet Archive. His grace. Kuenssberg, Laura (24 July 2019). "Boris Johnson: May bidding farewell before new PM takes office". BBC News. Archived from the original on 15 August 2022 . Retrieved 6 September 2022. I thought that the chapter in regards to the Milliband brothers was very interesting and how the two brothers represented Blair and Brown for a new generation. Modern historians generally consider Robert Walpole, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, [5] as the first prime minister. Walpole is also the longest-serving British prime minister by this definition. [6] By the same consideration the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger at its creation on 1 January 1801. [7] The first to use the title in an official act was Benjamin Disraeli, who, in 1878, signed the Treaty of Berlin as "Prime Minister of Her Britannic Majesty". [8]I remember that day very well. I was working as a barman and as I had been working a late shift the previous night, I didn't hear any news before I got to the pub the following morning. Following the succession of GeorgeI in 1714, the arrangement of a commission of lords of the Treasury (as opposed to a single lord high treasurer) became permanent. [19] For the next three years, the government was headed by Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, who was appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department. [20] Subsequently, Lords Stanhope and Sunderland ran the government jointly, [21] with Stanhope managing foreign affairs and Sunderland domestic. [21] Stanhope died in February 1721 and Sunderland resigned two months later; [21] Townshend and Robert Walpole were then invited to form the next government. [22] From that point, the holder of the office of first lord also usually (albeit unofficially) held the status of prime minister. It was not until the Edwardian era that the title prime minister was constitutionally recognised. [23] The prime minister still holds the office of first lord by constitutional convention, [24] the only exceptions being Lords Chatham (1766–1768) and Salisbury (1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902). [25] Since 1721 [ edit ] Prime ministers [ edit ] Kebbel, Thomas Edward (1864). Essays Upon History and Politics. London, UK: Chapman and Hall – via the Internet Archive. My future wife and I were on our first holiday together in Turkey and we were enjoying an afternoon beer in a bar in Bodrum, some English tourists (I'm Scottish) were also standing at the bar and they had a copy of The Daily Star lying in front of them, unread, the banner headline announcing the terrible news. The Annual Register 1946, p.11; Butler & Butler 2010, pp.17–21, 77; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p.295; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.276–282; The London Gazette 1924.

You have to say right away that Steve Richards is very fair to politicians. It is an admirably unfashionable habit among political commentators. Some scribblers nowadays would concoct an affair between David Attenborough and the Queen if either secular saint were to show an inclination to vote Labour. Boris Johnson replaces Theresa May as the UK's new prime minister". BBC News. 25 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022 . Retrieved 6 September 2022.Parties and Prime Ministers". BBC News. 19 May 1998. Archived from the original on 18 March 2004 . Retrieved 12 October 2008. Introduction". Britain before the Reform Act: Politics and Society 1815–1832 (2nded.). Routledge (published 2014). ISBN 978-1-317-88547-4.

No. 32987". The London Gazette. 31 October 1924. p.7861. The King has been graciously pleased to confer the Territorial Decoration upon the undermentioned Officers. I was devastated, having spent my entire adult life under the Tories, my family suffering as a direct result of Thatcher's "ideology". Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911a). " Burghley, William Cecil, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.4 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. Mahon, Viscount; Cardwell, Edward, eds. (1856). "Part II—The New Government; 1834–5". Memoirs by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel. London, UK: J. Murray. OL 23318495M.Cook & Stevenson 1980, p.11; Eccleshall & Walker 2002, p.28; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.16–21; Pryde et al. 1996, p.46; Tout 1910, p.740. Eccleshall & Walker 2002, pp.159, 167; Englefield, Seaton & White 1995, pp.169–174; Royal Society of Edinburgh 2006, p.375; Tout 1910, p.741.