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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
H. H. Asquith
British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)
Robert Peel
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)
Arthur Henderson
British politician (1863-1935)
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
British politician (1779–1848)
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812 to 1827
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
British politician and prime minister (1738–1809)
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
British Prime Minister (1737-1805)
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
British Prime Minister, politician (1759-1834)
Sajid Javid
British politician (born 1969)
Amber Rudd
British politician (born 1963)
Suella Braverman
UK lawyer and politician
James Cleverly
British politician (born 1969)
Jack Straw
British politician (born 1946)
Michael Howard
British politician; Former leader of the Conservative Party (UK) (born 1941)
Home Secretary
United Kingdom government cabinet minister
Yvette Cooper
British politician
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
British politician (1870–1963)
Jacqui Smith
British politician (born 1962)
Grant Shapps
British politician, Secretary of State for Defence
Kenneth Clarke
British politician (born 1940)
Alan Johnson
British politician (born 1950)
Douglas Hurd
British Conservative politician and novelist (born 1930)
David Blunkett
British politician (born 1947)
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
British politician (1873-1954)
Rab Butler
British politician (1902–1982)
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
British Conservative politician (1880-1959)
Herbert Morrison
British Labour politician (1888-1965)
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan
British politician (born 1947)
Leon Brittan
British politician and barrister (1939–2015)
Willie Whitelaw
British politician (1918–1999)
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney
British Viscount (1733-1800)
Reginald McKenna
British banker and Liberal politician (1863-1943)
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
British politician (1854-1930)
Reginald Maudling
British politician (1917–1979)
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
British Whig politician (1758-1834)
George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham
British politician (1753-1813)
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
British politician (1900-1967)
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
British nobleman and politician (1815–1895)
William Vernon Harcourt
British politician (1827–1904)
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
British Viscount (1882-1958)
Hugh Childers
British politician (1827-1896)
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
British politician (1780–1863)
Charles Clarke
British Labour Party politician (born 1950)
George Cornewall Lewis
British politician; (1806-1863)
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
British Whig politician and author (1797-1863)
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
British politician
John Robert Clynes
British politician and trade unionist (1869-1949)
David Waddington, Baron Waddington
British politician (1929-2017)
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
British politician (1781-1847)
Robert Carr
British politician (1916-2012)
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
British statesman (1792-1861)
Robert Lowe
British statesman and colonial Australian politician (1811-1892)