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Minister for the Cabinet Office. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Minister without Portfolio. Paymaster General (joint with HM Treasury) Minister of State without Portfolio. Minister of State for Veterans' Affairs. Minister of State at the Cabinet Office. Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office.
t. e. The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of the Government of the United Kingdom. [1] A committee of the Privy Council, it is chaired by the Prime Minister and its members include Secretaries of State and other senior ministers. Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the Prime Minister and are by convention ...
Fifty-six women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand for MP ...
June 1987 to July 1989. Margaret Thatcher – Prime Minister. The Viscount Whitelaw – Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. The Lord Havers – Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. John Wakeham – Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet. [3] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments.
Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom. Bottom right: Rishi Sunak is the incumbent, and first non-white and British Asian prime minister.
The first Blair ministry lasted from May 1997 to June 2001. After eighteen years in opposition, Labour ousted the Conservatives at the May 1997 election with a 179-seat majority. The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who turned 44 years old days after leading Labour to victory, was the youngest Prime Minister of the twentieth century.
Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 (141 P) Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 (103 P) Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957 (103 P) Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 (162 P) Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 (158 P)