Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
I am a simple American, but I enjoy studying the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.
With the 2024 elections complete and the Labour Party regaining power since Gordon Brown resigned in 2010, I thought it would be fun to discuss the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom.
From old stalwarts like Churchill to sophisticated intellectuals like Sir Edward Heath to glass breaking trailblazers like Margaret Thatcher, who was your favorite? Least favorite? Who do you think had the biggest influence in the 20th and 21st Century?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 15, 2024 12:50 PM
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He IS the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 15, 2024 2:36 AM
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I have always been fascinated with Sir Edward Health.
He had a love of sailing, football, gardening, and classical music, he was also a gourmet chef and amateur sommelier with a deep baritone voice. While Heath brought the UK into the EU and reformed the British government, he also inherited the rising of the IRA, high crime, and a bad economy, which encompassed most of his Premiership.
A traditional Conservative, he thought Margaret Thatcher would destroy Britain and preferred the moderate John Major. Margaret Thatcher dismissed him as repressed homosexual (Heath was a lifelong bachelor).
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 15, 2024 2:40 AM
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Thatcher is least favorite and most influential.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 15, 2024 2:41 AM
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This should've been a poll.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 15, 2024 2:41 AM
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According to an IMDB review Hennessy, with Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Trevor Howard, Patrick Stewart, Peter Egan and Eric Porter, "shows the stark brutality and absolute horror of IRA terrorism during the time Edward Heath was Britain's Prime Minister."
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 15, 2024 2:47 AM
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R4 I thought about it, but you only get 10 slots. Going back to WWII:
Chamberlain
Churchill
Atlee
Churchill
Eden
Macmillan
Wilson
Heath
Wilson
Callaghan
Thatcher
Major
Blair
Brown
Cameron
May
Johnson
Truss
Sunak
Starmer
There are 17 to discuss, and I don't want to leave anyone out
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 15, 2024 2:50 AM
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Clement Attlee:
There were few who thought him a starter, Many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM, an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 15, 2024 2:59 AM
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R7 I always felt Attlee was like America's Aldai Stevenson
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 15, 2024 3:03 AM
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Blair is probably the second-most influential, after Thatcher, since he’s responsible for reimagining Clause Four and turning Labour into the Red Tories.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 15, 2024 7:00 AM
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R6, you left out Alec Douglas-Home, who was PM from October 1963 to October 1964 (between Macmillan and Wilson). Not a particularly influential Prime Minister, but he served during interesting times.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 15, 2024 7:35 AM
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I went on a detox break from reading news and completely missed Truss. Very confusing when I came back!
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 15, 2024 12:50 PM
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