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* UsefulNotes/AlecDouglasHome (Conservative, 1963–64) -- pronounced "Douglas-''Hume''"; the last Prime Minister to sit in the House of Lords (he renounced the Earldom of Home and finished his term in the Commons, being elected at Kinross & Western Perthshire); also ([[BlueBlood and not surprisingly]]) the last PM to be descended from or closely related to a previous PM, and the most recent PM to later serve in another PM's Cabinet (having a spell as Foreign Secretary under Edward Heath); died in 1995
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* UsefulNotes/AlecDouglasHome (Conservative, 1963–64) -- pronounced "Douglas-''Hume''"; the last Prime Minister to sit in the House of Lords (he renounced the Earldom of Home and finished his term in the Commons, being elected at Kinross & Western Perthshire); also ([[BlueBlood and not surprisingly]]) the last PM to be descended from or closely related to a previous PM, and the most recent PM to later serve in another PM's Cabinet (having a spell as Foreign Secretary under Edward Heath); PM; died in 1995
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* UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher (Conservative, 1979–90) -- governed while MP for Finchley; the first ''woman'' of Downing Street, but many humorists felt she was more manly than her entire Cabinet; longest-serving PM of the 20th century; most recent former PM to be elevated to the Lords; most recent PM to die, in 2013, and, ironically, most recent to receive a state funeral.
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* UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher (Conservative, 1979–90) -- governed while MP for Finchley; the first ''woman'' of Downing Street, but many humorists felt she was more manly than her entire Cabinet; longest-serving PM of the 20th century; most recent former PM to be elevated to the Lords; most recent PM to die, in 2013, and, ironically, most recent to receive a state funeral.
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* UsefulNotes/DavidCameron (Conservative, 2010–16) -- Governed while MP for Witney; living; led the first coalition government (with the Liberal Democrats, led by UsefulNotes/NickClegg) since the Second World War; returned to single-party government in 2015, albeit with a tiny majority. Won the referenda on the Alternative Vote and Scottish independence (he supported NO on both); lost the referendum on continued UK membership of the EU (he supported REMAIN).
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* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Tory, 1807–09) -- second time officially in office, but as he was old and ill, Spencer Perceval was TheManBehindTheMan for him. He stepped down on 4 October and died on the ''30th'', giving him a post-premiership of just twenty-six days.
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* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Tory, 1807–09) -- second time officially in office, but as he was old and ill, Spencer Perceval was TheManBehindTheMan for him.the real person in power. He stepped down on 4 October and died on the ''30th'', giving him a post-premiership of just twenty-six days.
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* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson (Conservative, 2019 – September 6, 2022) -- Governed while MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip; living; the second PM born outside of the British Isles, and the first outside of the British Empire/Commonwealth (in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, to be precise); renounced his dual American citizenship in 2016. Taking over following Theresa May's resignation, maintaining the same minority government supported by the DUP, until mass defections by [=MPs=] left the Tory–DUP confidence-and-supply agreement without a functioning majority, meaning he called a general election later that year, which resulted in the Conservatives regaining a solid majority with help from the Brexit Party forming an unofficial alliance with them, the party's first in over three decades. Took Britain out of the European Union, oversaw most of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and became one of the firmest West European supporters of arming UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} amidst the 2022 invasion of the latter by UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russia]]. Probably the first practising Catholic PM, though he refused to confirm it, as he was baptized Catholic and married in a Catholic ceremony (the first sitting PM to wed in office in two centuries) during his tenure.[[note]]The Roman Catholic Church allowed this despite Johnson being twice divorced as neither of ''those'' marriages had been celebrated in the Catholic Church.[[/note]] Resigned after multiple scandals including Partygate,[[note]]the revelations that Johnson and his staff had held multiple parties at 10 Downing Street during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020-21, resulting in Johnson and his wife getting fined by the police,[[/note]] the Owen Paterson scandal,[[note]]an attempt by Johnson to change anti-corruption rules for [=MPs=] to prevent Paterson, a senior Conservative politician who'd been found in breach of lobbying rules, from being suspended from Parliament,[[/note]] and the Chris Pincher scandal,[[note]]the revelation that Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct,[[/note]] the last of which led to mass resignations from his cabinet which ultimately forced him to announce his own; still an MP.
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* UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson (Labour, 1964–70) -- Governed while MP for Huyton. Presided over the Swinging Sixties and the British Invasion. Led a strongly socially liberal government, having abolished capital punishment, decriminalized homosexuality, and liberalized abortion laws in his first term. [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney Also decimalized the Pound]], awarded each of Music/TheBeatles an MBE,[[note]]Music/JohnLennon returned his in political protest in 1969, but the other three kept theirs. Music/PaulMcCartney got a knighthood in 1997; Music/RingoStarr would follow in 2018. Music/GeorgeHarrison was offered an OBE but declined it in 2000, having wanted to be knighted like Sir Paul. He died shortly thereafter, but probably ''would'' have been knighted had he lived long enough.[[/note]] and was PM the one and only time [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball England won the World Cup]] (in 1966).
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* UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson (Labour, 1964–70) -- Governed while MP for Huyton. Presided over the Swinging Sixties and the British Invasion. Led a strongly socially liberal government, having abolished capital punishment, punishment[[note]]Technically it remained a valid sentence for treason until 1998, but there had been no executions for treason since [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1946]][[/note]], decriminalized homosexuality, and liberalized abortion laws in his first term. [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney Also decimalized the Pound]], awarded each of Music/TheBeatles an MBE,[[note]]Music/JohnLennon returned his in political protest in 1969, but the other three kept theirs. Music/PaulMcCartney got a knighthood in 1997; Music/RingoStarr would follow in 2018. Music/GeorgeHarrison was offered an OBE but declined it in 2000, having wanted to be knighted like Sir Paul. He died shortly thereafter, but probably ''would'' have been knighted had he lived long enough.[[/note]] and was PM the one and only time [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball England won the World Cup]] (in 1966).
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* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 25, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], the first Prime Minister to practice a faith other than Christianity (Hinduism)[[labelnote:*]]As noted above, Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, but converted at young age.[[/labelnote]] and at 42 years and 166 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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As you will no doubt notice, technically this page should be called The Men and ''Women'' of Downing Street.[[note]]Although considering Thatcher's reputation, the joke was that she was more man than most of her Cabinet...[[/note]]
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* UsefulNotes/JohnMajor (Conservative, 1990–97) -- governed while MP for Huntingdon; living
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British prime ministers. A varied lot, be it in the areas of appearance, influence, time, origin, personality, politics or even personal lives, though a lot went to Eton or Harrow and then UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}}. They have had a great deal of impact on worlds both real and fictional and rank second only to UsefulNotes/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStates in being the most influential and well-known Western world leaders.
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* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 25, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], the first Prime Minister to have a faith other than Christianity (Hinduism) and at 42 years and 166 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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* UsefulNotes/GordonBrown (Labour, 2007–10) -- governed while MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath; living; only PM with a PhD (in History, from the University of Edinburgh), and the most recent PM to have been removed by the electorate.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022 – October 25, 2022) -- Governed while MP for South West Norfolk; living; the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For the following two weeks, politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022, leaving office on 25 October after just 49 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term. Still an MP.
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* Harold Wilson (Labour, 1974–76) -- last PM to be returned to office after a defeat; last PM to win four general elections (1964, 1966, Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974); last PM to leave office voluntarily.[[note]]Blair and Cameron both resigned "voluntarily", but Blair was forced out from the fallout over Iraq and pressure from the pro-Brown faction of the party and Cameron resigned because his position was untenable after losing the 2016 referendum on continued EU membership.[[/note]] Died a few months before Home in 1995.
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* Harold Wilson (Labour, 1974–76) -- last PM to be returned to office after a defeat; last PM to win four general elections (1964, 1966, Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974); last PM to leave office voluntarily.[[note]]Blair and Cameron both resigned "voluntarily", but Blair was forced out from the fallout over Iraq and pressure from the pro-Brown faction of the party and Cameron resigned because his position was untenable after losing the 2016 referendum on continued EU membership.[[/note]] Died a few months before Home Douglas-Home in 1995.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022 – October 25, 2022) -- Governed while MP for South West Norfolk; living; the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term. Still an MP.
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* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 25, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], the first Prime Minister to have a faith other than Christianity (Hinduism) and at 42 years and 165 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022 – October 24, 2022) -- Governed while MP for South West Norfolk; living; the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term. Still an MP.
* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 24, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], and at 42 years and 165 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 24, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], and at 42 years and 165 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022 – October 24, 25, 2022) -- Governed while MP for South West Norfolk; living; the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term. Still an MP.
* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October24, 25, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]], and at 42 years and 165 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 24, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]].Infosys[[/note]], and at 42 years and 165 days on taking office, the youngest Prime Minister since UsefulNotes/LordLiverpool.
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* [[UsefulNotes/ViscountGoderich Frederick Robinson, 2nd Viscount Goderich]] (Tory, 1827–28) -- died in 1859
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* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson (Conservative, 2019–22) -- Governed while MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip; living; the second PM born outside of the British Isles, and the first outside of the British Empire/Commonwealth (in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, to be precise); renounced his dual American citizenship in 2016. Taking over following Theresa May's resignation, maintaining the same minority government supported by the DUP, until mass defections by [=MPs=] left the Tory–DUP confidence-and-supply agreement without a functioning majority, meaning he called a general election later that year, which resulted in the Conservatives regaining a solid majority with help from the Brexit Party forming an unofficial alliance with them, the party's first in over three decades. Took Britain out of the European Union, oversaw most of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and became one of the firmest West European supporters of arming UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} amidst the 2022 invasion of the latter by UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russia]]. Probably the first practising Catholic PM, though he refused to confirm it, as he was baptized Catholic and married in a Catholic ceremony (the first sitting PM to wed in office in two centuries) during his tenure.[[note]]The Roman Catholic Church allowed this despite Johnson being twice divorced as neither of ''those'' marriages had been celebrated in the Catholic Church.[[/note]] Resigned after multiple scandals including Partygate,[[note]]the revelations that Johnson and his staff had held multiple parties at 10 Downing Street during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020-21, resulting in Johnson and his wife getting fined by the police,[[/note]] the Owen Paterson scandal,[[note]]an attempt by Johnson to change anti-corruption rules for [=MPs=] to prevent Paterson, a senior Conservative politician who'd been found in breach of lobbying rules, from being suspended from Parliament,[[/note]] and the Chris Pincher scandal,[[note]]the revelation that Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct,[[/note]] the last of which led to mass resignations from his cabinet which ultimately forced him to announce his own; still an MP.
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* UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson (Conservative, 2019–22) 2019 – September 6, 2022) -- Governed while MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip; living; the second PM born outside of the British Isles, and the first outside of the British Empire/Commonwealth (in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, to be precise); renounced his dual American citizenship in 2016. Taking over following Theresa May's resignation, maintaining the same minority government supported by the DUP, until mass defections by [=MPs=] left the Tory–DUP confidence-and-supply agreement without a functioning majority, meaning he called a general election later that year, which resulted in the Conservatives regaining a solid majority with help from the Brexit Party forming an unofficial alliance with them, the party's first in over three decades. Took Britain out of the European Union, oversaw most of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and became one of the firmest West European supporters of arming UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} amidst the 2022 invasion of the latter by UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Russia]]. Probably the first practising Catholic PM, though he refused to confirm it, as he was baptized Catholic and married in a Catholic ceremony (the first sitting PM to wed in office in two centuries) during his tenure.[[note]]The Roman Catholic Church allowed this despite Johnson being twice divorced as neither of ''those'' marriages had been celebrated in the Catholic Church.[[/note]] Resigned after multiple scandals including Partygate,[[note]]the revelations that Johnson and his staff had held multiple parties at 10 Downing Street during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020-21, resulting in Johnson and his wife getting fined by the police,[[/note]] the Owen Paterson scandal,[[note]]an attempt by Johnson to change anti-corruption rules for [=MPs=] to prevent Paterson, a senior Conservative politician who'd been found in breach of lobbying rules, from being suspended from Parliament,[[/note]] and the Chris Pincher scandal,[[note]]the revelation that Johnson had appointed Pincher to a government post despite knowing that he had been the subject of (and investigated by the police over) multiple allegations of sexual misconduct,[[/note]] the last of which led to mass resignations from his cabinet which ultimately forced him to announce his own; still an MP.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously); the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]].[[note]](Truss remains PM until a successor as Conservative leader is elected -- but unless something unforeseen drags this process out for two-and-a-half months she is guaranteed to break Canning's record.)[[/note]] She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 2022 – October 24, 2022) -- Governing Governed while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously); living; the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]].[[note]](Truss remains PM until a successor as Conservative leader is elected -- but unless something unforeseen drags this process out for two-and-a-half months she is guaranteed to break Canning's record.)[[/note]] She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.term. Still an MP.
* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 24, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]].
* UsefulNotes/RishiSunak (Conservative, October 24, 2022 – present) -- Governing while MP for Richmond (Yorkshire)[[note]]this is the official name of his constituency, to avoid it being confused for the now-defunct constituency of Richmond in Surrey[[/note]]; living (obviously); the first British Asian and first non-white Prime Minister, succeeded Liz Truss following her resignation, having previously lost to her in the leadership election seven weeks prior. One of, if not the, wealthiest people to have been Prime Minister, [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-net-worth/ with a personal fortune of £730million ($827million)]][[note]]this largely stems from Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, being the heiress to technology company Infosys[[/note]].
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. Last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), (obviously); the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On For next two weeks politics was effectively on hold for official national mourning. Then, though, on 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned as party leader on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her as Prime Minister, smashing George Canning's 195-year-old record for [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. Last history]].[[note]](Truss remains PM who until a successor as Conservative leader is elected -- but unless something unforeseen drags this process out for two-and-a-half months she is guaranteed to break Canning's record.)[[/note]] She also usurps Neville Chamberlain as the most recent PM to never faced face the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her [[ShortRunners the shortest-serving PM in history]]. Last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her [[ShortRunners [[ShortLivedLeadership the shortest-serving PM in history]]. Last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain (Conservative, 1937–40) -- governed as MP for Birmingham Edgbaston; forever associated with HeadInTheSandManagement thanks to his signing of the Munich Agreement, stayed on after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Poland]] but resigned after the fall of Norway; last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader or at any point during his term; died in November 1940 after having resigned in May
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* UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain (Conservative, 1937–40) -- governed as MP for Birmingham Edgbaston; forever associated with HeadInTheSandManagement thanks to his signing of the Munich Agreement, stayed on after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Poland]] but resigned after the fall of Norway; last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader or at any point during his term; died in November 1940 after having resigned in May
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her [[ShortRunners the shortest-serving PM in history]]. Last PM who never faced the electorate as party leader at any point during their term.
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* UsefulNotes/GeorgeCanning (Tory and later Coalition, April–August 1827) -- after distinguished spells as Foreign Secretary under Lords Portland and Liverpool, he became Britain's [[ShortRunners shortest-serving]] and arguably most WhatCouldHaveBeen PM (119 days), since he died in office of tuberculosis;[[note]]In the same room where Charles James Fox, an important politician of an earlier generation, had died, no less![[/note]] governed while MP for Seaford
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her [[ShortRunners the shortest-serving PM in history.history]].
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her the shortest-serving PM ''ever''.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her the shortest-serving PM ''ever''.in history.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting, among other things.plummeting and forcing the Bank of England to make an emergency intervention. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her the shortest-serving PM ''ever''.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. After several weeks of political chaos ensuing from On 23 September her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng issued a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement on 23 September which went down like a lead balloon with financial markets, sending the value of the pound plummeting, among other things. The ensuing political chaos wholly eroded her authority, and she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her the shortest-serving PM ''ever''.
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* UsefulNotes/LizTruss (Conservative, 2022–present) September 6, 2022–October 20, 2022) -- Governing while MP for South West Norfolk; living (obviously), the third woman to become Prime Minister, succeeded Boris Johnson following his resignation. Very briefly served under UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, taking office two days before the Queen's death. After several weeks of political chaos ensuing from a disastrous "mini-budget" announcement on 23 September wholly eroded her authority, she resigned on 20 October 2022 after just 45 days in office, rendering her the shortest-serving PM ''ever''.
