Prime minister

Arthur James balfour

• conservative in office from 1902 to 1905

• Unemployed Workmen Act 1905 to give out single grants to businesses or local authorities in order to allow them to hire more workers to decrease the number of unemployed

David Lloyd George

• liberal in office from 1916 to 1922

• Education act of 1918 that raised the school leaving age to 14

• Young Persons and Children Act 1920 that prohibited the employment of children below the limit of compulsory school age in

stanley Baldwin

• conservative in office from 1923 to 1924, 1924 to 1929 and 1935 to 1937

• Trade Disputes Act 1927 following General Strike, introduced to limit powers and of trade union movement. Affected funding of Labour party too

neville chamberlain

• conservative in office from 1937 to 1940

• Factories Act 1937 that limited hours worked by women and children

• Holiday with Pay Act 1938 that are recommendation of week’s paid holiday which led to expansion of holiday camps

Clement Attlee

• leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955

• in office from 1945 to 1951

• National Health Service Act 1946 that made healthcare free on the basis of citizenship and need rather than the payment of fees or insurance premiums

• National Insurance Act 1946 that introduced social security in which persons of working age had to pay a weekly contribution and in return were had a wide range of benefits when they could no longer work

• Children Act 1948: established a comprehensive childcare service reforming services providing care to deprived and orphaned children

Winston Churchill

• led Britain to victory in WW2

• conservative in office from 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955

• awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953

• Education Act 1944 that made free secondary education for all pupils

Anthony eden

• conservative in office from 1955 to 1957

• feared a new Arab alliance would cut off oil supplies to Europe and conspired with France and Israel in order to retake the Suez canal which led to a badly performed invasion and international condemnation from the United Nations, the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth and the threat of sanctions from the USA

Harold Wilson

• Labour leader in office from 1964 to 1970 and 1970 to 1976

• murder act 1965 that suspended the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland

• Sexual Offences Act 1967 that decriminalized certain homosexual offences

baroness Margaret thatcher

• the Iron Lady

• first British woman prime minister

• conservative in office from 1979 to 1990

• Housing act 1980 that gave security of tenure and the right to buy homes to tenants of local authorities and other bodies

John major

• conservative in office from 1990 to 1997

• his government's representatives participated in the negotiation of a cease-fire in Northern Ireland

• was appointed a special guardian to Princes William and Harry with responsibility for legal and administrative matters

Tony Blair

• Labour leader in office from 1997 to 2007

• oversaw the Northern Irish peace process

• Civil Partnership Act 2004 that allowed legal recognition of civil partnership relationship between two people of the same sex

Gordon Brown

• Labour leader in office from 2007 to 2010

• Climate Change Act 2008 to set a target for the year 2050 for the reduction of targeted greenhouse gas emissions

• Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to confer further powers to gather and share information for counter-terrorism and other purposes

David Cameron

• conservative in office from 2010 to 2016

• introduced new policies such as the National Living Wage and conducted reforms in education, welfare and health

Theresa may

• conservative in office from 2016 to 2019

• establish the UK’s first ever Race Disparity Audit to uncover racial disparities in public services

• EU Withdrawal Act 2018

boris johnson

• conservative in office from 2019 to 2022

• introduced various emergency powers to mitigate the covid’s impact and approved a nationwide vaccination programme

• responded to the invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorising foreign aid and weapons shipments to Ukraine

liz truss

• conservative in office from September 2022 to October 2022

• announced the Energy Price Guarantee in response to the rising cost of living and increased energy prices

• large-scale tax cuts and borrowing which led to financial instability and were largely reversed.

Rishi sunak

• conservative in office from 2022 to 2024

• Eat Out to Help Out schemes to support and create jobs in hospitality to counter the economic impact of covid

Keir starmer

labour lader in office since July 2024