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The United Kingdom Prime Minister is usually the leader of the political party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons during a general election. The monarch formally appoints the leader of the majority party as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister must retain the confidence of the House of Commons to stay in office.

List of UK Prime Ministers:
Robert Walpole (1721–42)
Spencer Compton (1742–43)
Henry Pelham (1743–54)
Thomas Pelham-Holles (1754–56)
William Cavendish (1756–57)
Thomas Pelham-Holles (1757–62)
John Stuart (1762–63)
George Grenville (1763–65)
Charles Watson Wentworth (1765–66)
William Pitt, the Elder (1766–68)
Augustus Henry Fitzroy (1768–70)
Frederick North (1770–82)
Charles Watson Wentworth (1782)
William Petty-Fitzmaurice (1782–83)
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1783)
William Pitt, the Younger (1783–1801)
Henry Addington (1801–04)
William Pitt, the Younger (1804–06)
William Wyndham Grenville (1806–07)
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1807–09)
Spencer Perceval (1809–12)
Robert Banks Jenkinson (1812–27)
George Canning (1827)
Frederick John Robinson (1827–28)
Arthur Wellesley (1828–30)
Charles Grey (1830–34)
William Lamb (1834)
Arthur Wellesley (1834)
Robert Peel (1834–35)
William Lamb (1835–41)
Robert Peel (1841–46)
John Russell (1846–52)
Edward Geoffrey Stanley (1852)
George Hamilton-Gordon (1852–55)
Henry John Temple (1855–58)
Edward Geoffrey Stanley (1858–59)
Henry John Temple (1859–65)
John Russell (1865–66)
Edward Geoffrey Stanley (1866–68)
Benjamin Disraeli (1868)
William Ewart Gladstone (1868–74)
Benjamin Disraeli (1874–80)
William Ewart Gladstone (1880–85)
Robert Cecil (1885–86)
William Ewart Gladstone (1886)
Robert Cecil (1886–92;)
William Ewart Gladstone (1892–94)
Archibald Philip Primrose (1894–95)
Robert Cecil (1895–1902)
Arthur James Balfour (1902–05)
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–08)
H.H. Asquith (1908–16)
David Lloyd George (1916–22)
Bonar Law (1922–23)
Stanley Baldwin (1923–24)
Ramsay Macdonald (1924)
Stanley Baldwin (1924–29)
Ramsay Macdonald (1929–35)
Stanley Baldwin (1935–37)
Neville Chamberlain (1937–40)
Winston Churchill (1940–45)
Clement Attlee (1945–51)
Winston Churchill (1951–55)
Anthony Eden (1955–57)
Harold Macmillan (1957–63)
Alec Douglas-Home (1963–64)
Harold Wilson (1964–70)
Edward Heath (1970–74)
Harold Wilson (1974–76)
James Callaghan (1976–79)
Margaret Thatcher (1979–90)
John Major (1990–97)
Tony Blair (1997–2007)
Gordon Brown (2007–10)
David Cameron (2010–16)
Theresa May (2016–19)
Boris Johnson (2019–22)
Liz Truss (2022)
Rishi Sunak (2022–24)
Keir Starmer (2024– )

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