Churchill war ministry

Churchill War Ministry
72nd Ministry of the United Kingdom (since 1707)

Date formed	10 May 1940 (1940-05-10)
Date dissolved	23 May 1945 (1945-05-23)
People and organisations
Head of government	Winston Churchill
Head of state	King George VI
Status in legislature	Coalition government
History
Predecessor	Chamberlain War
Successor	Churchill Caretaker

The Churchill war ministry was a Conservative-led coalition government in the United Kingdom, which lasted for most of World War II. It was led by Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Formed in 1940, within a year of the war's outbreak, it lasted until 23 May 1945, shortly after the defeat of Nazi Germany, when Churchill resigned and an election was called.^[1]

The war ministry was followed by the Churchill caretaker ministry which in turn lasted until 26 July 1945 when the results of the general election brought Labour into government, led by Clement Attlee.

War Cabinet

1940–45

Red indicates a member of the Labour Party, whilst blue indicates a member of the Conservative Party. Grey indicates an independent.

For a list of changes to the composition of the ministry, see here.


Portfolio	Minister		Took office	Left office	Party

First Lord of the Treasury Minister of Defence		Winston Churchill	May 1940	May 1945	Conservative
Deputy Prime Minister		Clement Attlee	February 1942	May 1945	Labour
Lord President of the Council		Neville Chamberlain	May 1940	October 1940	Conservative
		Sir John Anderson	October 1940	September 1943	National
		Clement Attlee	September 1943	May 1945	Labour
Lord Privy Seal		Clement Attlee	May 1940	February 1942	Labour
Lord Privy Seal		Sir Stafford Cripps	February 1942	October 1942^[2]	Labour
Chancellor of the Exchequer		Sir Kingsley Wood	October 1940	February 1942^[3]	Conservative
Chancellor of the Exchequer		Sir John Anderson	September 1943	May 1945	National
Foreign Secretary		The Viscount Halifax	May 1940	December 1940	Conservative
Foreign Secretary		Anthony Eden	December 1940	May 1945	Conservative
Home Secretary		Herbert Morrison	October 1942	May 1945	Labour
Minister of Aircraft Production		The Lord Beaverbrook	August 1940	May 1941^[2]	Conservative
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs		Clement Attlee	February 1942	September 1943^[2]	Labour
Minister of Labour and National Service		Ernest Bevin	October 1940	May 1945	Labour
Minister-Resident for the Middle East		Oliver Lyttelton	February 1942	March 1942	Conservative
		Richard Casey	March 1942	January 1944	National
		The Lord Moyne	January 1944	November 1944^[2]	Conservative
Minister without Portfolio		Arthur Greenwood	May 1940	February 1942	Labour
Minister of Reconstruction		The Lord Woolton	November 1943	May 1945	Conservative
Minister of State		The Lord Beaverbrook	May 1941	June 1941	Conservative
Minister of Supply		The Lord Beaverbrook	June 1941	February 1942	Conservative
Minister of War Production		The Lord Beaverbrook	February 1942	February 1942	Conservative
Minister of War Production		Oliver Lyttelton	March 1942	May 1945	Conservative

List of Ministers

Members of the War Cabinet are in bold face.

Office	Name		Dates	Notes
Prime Minister Minister of Defence and First Lord of the Treasury	Winston Churchill	Conservative	10 May 1940	Member of War Cabinet; also Leader of the House of Commons 1940–42
Lord Chancellor	Viscount Simon	Liberal National	12 May 1940
Lord President of the Council	Neville Chamberlain	Conservative	11 May 1940	Member of War Cabinet. Died in November 1940.
	Sir John Anderson	National	3 October 1940	Member of War Cabinet
	Clement Attlee	Labour	24 September 1943	Member of War Cabinet
Lord Privy Seal	Clement Attlee	Labour	11 May 1940	Member of War Cabinet; also Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
	Stafford Cripps	Labour	19 February 1942	Member of War Cabinet; also Leader of the House of Commons
	Viscount Cranborne	Conservative	22 November 1942	also Leader of the House of Lords
	Lord Beaverbrook	Conservative	24 September 1943	Member of War Cabinet
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Sir Kingsley Wood	Conservative	12 May 1940	In War Cabinet from 3 October 1940 – 19 February 1942
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Sir John Anderson	National	24 September 1943
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	David Margesson	Conservative	17 May 1940 – 22 December 1940	Jointly
	Sir Charles Edwards	Labour	17 May 1940 – 12 March 1942	Jointly
	James Stuart	Conservative	14 January 1941 – 23 May 1945	Jointly
	William Whiteley	Labour	12 March 1942 – 23 May 1945	Jointly
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	Harry Crookshank	Conservative	15 May 1940
	Ralph Assheton	Conservative	7 February 1943
	Osbert Peake	Conservative	29 October 1944
Lords of the Treasury	Stephen Furness	Liberal National	12 May 1940 – 18 May 1940
	James Stuart	Conservative	12 May 1940 – 14 January 1941
	Patrick Munro	Conservative	12 May 1940 – 13 March 1942
	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	Conservative	12 May 1940 – 26 June 1940
	William Whytehead Boulton	Conservative	12 May 1940 – 13 March 1942
	Wilfred Paling	Labour	18 May 1940 – 8 February 1941
	James Thomas	Conservative	26 June 1940 – 25 September 1943
	Thomas Dugdale	Conservative	8 February 1941 – 23 February 1942
	William Murdoch Adamson	Labour	1 March 1941 – 2 October 1944
	Arthur Young	Conservative	23 February 1942 – 3 July 1944
	John McEwen	Conservative	13 March 1942 – 6 December 1944
	Leslie Pym	Conservative	13 March 1942 – 23 May 1945
	Alec Beechman	Liberal National	25 September 1943 – 23 May 1945
	Cedric Drewe	Conservative	3 July 1944 – 23 May 1945
	William John	Labour	2 October 1944 – 23 May 1945
	Patrick Buchan-Hepburn	Conservative	6 December 1944 – 23 May 1945
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Viscount Halifax	Conservative	11 May 1940	also Leader of the House of Lords from 3 October 1940; Member of War Cabinet
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Anthony Eden	Conservative	22 December 1940	Member of War Cabinet; also Leader of the House of Commons 1942–45
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	R. A. Butler	Conservative	15 May 1940
	Richard Law	Conservative	20 July 1941
	George Henry Hall	Labour	25 September 1943
Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Home Security	Sir John Anderson	National	12 May 1940
	Herbert Morrison	Labour	2 October 1940	In War Cabinet from 22 November 1942
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Osbert Peake	Conservative	15 May 1940
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	The Earl of Munster	Conservative	31 October 1944
Parliamentary Secretary for the Home Department	William Mabane	Liberal National	15 May 1940 – 3 June 1942
Parliamentary Secretary for the Home Department	Ellen Wilkinson	Labour	8 October 1940 – 23 May 1945
First Lord of the Admiralty	A. V. Alexander	Labour	11 May 1940
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	Sir Victor Warrender, Bt	Conservative	17 May 1940	Lord Bruntisfield
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	Sir Austin Hudson, Bt	Conservative	15 May 1940
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	Richard Pilkington	Conservative	4 March 1942
Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	George Hall	Labour	4 February 1942
Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	James Thomas	Conservative	25 September 1943
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	Robert Hudson	Conservative	14 May 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	The Lord Moyne	Conservative	15 May 1940 – 8 February 1941
	Tom Williams	Labour	15 May 1940 – 23 May 1945
	The Duke of Norfolk	Conservative	8 February 1941 – 23 May 1945
Secretary of State for Air	Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt	Liberal	11 May 1940
Under-Secretary of State for Air	Harold Balfour	Conservative	15 May 1940 – 21 November 1944
	The Lord Sherwood	Liberal	20 July 1941 – 23 May 1945
	Rupert Brabner	Conservative	21 November 1944 – 27 March 1945
	Quintin Hogg	Conservative	12 April 1945 – 23 May 1945
Minister of Aircraft Production	The Lord Beaverbrook	Conservative	14 May 1940	In War Cabinet from 2 August 1940 – 1 May 1941
	John Moore-Brabazon	Conservative	1 May 1941
	John Llewellin	Conservative	22 February 1942
	Sir Stafford Cripps	Labour	22 November 1942
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Aircraft Production	John Llewellin	Conservative	15 May 1940
	Frederick Montague	Labour	1 May 1941
	Ben Smith	Labour	4 March 1942
	Alan Lennox-Boyd	Conservative	11 November 1943
Minister of Civil Aviation	The Viscount Swinton	Conservative	8 October 1944	New office
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation	Robert Perkins	Conservative	22 March 1945
Secretary of State for the Colonies	The Lord Lloyd	Conservative	12 May 1940	also Leader of the House of Lords from 22 December 1940
	The Lord Moyne	Conservative	8 February 1941	also Leader of the House of Lords
	Viscount Cranborne	Conservative	22 February 1942	also Leader of the House of Lords
	Oliver Stanley	Conservative	22 November 1942
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	George Hall	Labour	15 May 1940
	Harold Macmillan	Conservative	4 February 1942
	The Duke of Devonshire	Conservative	1 January 1943
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	The Viscount Caldecote	Conservative	14 May 1940	also Leader of the House of Lords
	Viscount Cranborne	Conservative	3 October 1940
	Clement Attlee	Labour	19 February 1942	Member of War Cabinet
	Viscount Cranborne	Conservative	24 September 1943	also Leader of the House of Lords
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	Geoffrey Shakespeare	Liberal National	15 May 1940
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	Paul Emrys-Evans	Conservative	4 March 1942
Minister of Economic Warfare	Hugh Dalton	Labour	15 May 1940
Minister of Economic Warfare	Viscount Wolmer	Conservative	22 February 1942
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare	Dingle Foot	Liberal	17 May 1940
President of the Board of Education	Herwald Ramsbotham	Conservative	14 May 1940
President of the Board of Education	Rab Butler	Conservative	20 July 1941	Renamed Minister of Education 3 August 1944
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education	James Chuter Ede	Labour	15 May 1940
Minister of Food	The Lord Woolton	Conservative	13 May 1940
Minister of Food	John Llewellin	Conservative	11 November 1943
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food	Robert Boothby	Conservative	15 May 1940
	Gwilym Lloyd-George	Liberal	22 October 1940
	William Mabane	Liberal National	3 June 1942
Minister of Fuel and Power	Gwilym Lloyd-George	Liberal	3 June 1942	New office
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power	Geoffrey Lloyd	Conservative	3 June 1942 – 23 May 1945
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power	Tom Smith	Labour	3 June 1942 – 23 May 1945
Minister of Health	Malcolm MacDonald	National Labour	13 May 1940
	Ernest Brown	Liberal National	8 February 1941
	Henry Willink	Conservative	11 November 1943
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	Florence Horsbrugh	Conservative	15 May 1940
Secretary of State for India and Burma	Leo Amery	Conservative	13 May 1940
Parliamentary Secretary for India and Burma	The Duke of Devonshire	Conservative	17 May 1940
	The Earl of Munster	Conservative	1 January 1943
	The Earl of Listowel	Labour	31 October 1944
Minister of Information	Duff Cooper	Conservative	12 May 1940	Attended War Cabinet from 28 May 1940
Minister of Information	Brendan Bracken	Conservative	20 July 1941
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Information	Harold Nicolson	National Labour	17 May 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Information	Ernest Thurtle	Labour	20 July 1941
Minister of Labour and National Service	Ernest Bevin	Labour	13 May 1940	In War Cabinet from 3 October 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour	Ralph Assheton	Conservative	15 May 1940 – 4 February 1942
	George Tomlinson	Labour	8 February 1941 – 23 May 1945
	Malcolm McCorquodale	Conservative	4 February 1942 – 23 May 1945
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Lord Hankey	Independent	14 May 1940
	Duff Cooper	Conservative	20 July 1941
	Ernest Brown	Liberal National	11 November 1943
Minister Resident North-West Africa	Harold Macmillan	Conservative	30 December 1942
Minister Resident Middle East	Oliver Lyttelton	Conservative	19 February 1942	Member of War Cabinet
	Richard Casey	Independent	19 March 1942	Member of War Cabinet until 23 December 1943. Not a British MP
	The Lord Moyne	Conservative	28 January 1944
	Sir Edward Grigg	Conservative	21 November 1944
Deputy Minister of State	The Lord Moyne	Conservative	27 August 1942 – 28 January 1944
Minister Resident, Washington	John Llewellin	Conservative	22 November 1942
Minister Resident, Washington	Ben Smith	Labour	11 November 1943
Minister Resident West Africa	The Viscount Swinton	Conservative	8 June 1942
Minister Resident West Africa	Harold Balfour	Conservative	21 November 1944
Minister without Portfolio	Arthur Greenwood	Labour	11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942	Member of War Cabinet
Minister without Portfolio	Sir William Jowitt	Labour	30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944
Paymaster General	Viscount Cranborne	Conservative	15 May 1940	Office vacant 3 October 1940
	The Lord Hankey	Independent	20 July 1941
	Sir William Jowitt	Labour	4 March 1942
	The Lord Cherwell	Conservative	30 December 1942
Minister for Pensions	Sir Walter Womersley	Conservative	15 May 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions	Ellen Wilkinson	Labour	17 May 1940
	The Lord Tryon	Conservative	8 October 1940
	Wilfred Paling	Labour	8 February 1941
Postmaster-General	William Morrison	Conservative	15 May 1940
Postmaster-General	Harry Crookshank	Conservative	7 February 1943
Assistant Postmaster-General	Charles Waterhouse	Conservative	17 May 1940
	Allan Chapman	Conservative	1 March 1941
	Robert Grimston	Conservative	4 March 1942
Minister of Reconstruction	The Lord Woolton	Conservative	11 November 1943	Member of War Cabinet
Secretary of State for Scotland	Ernest Brown	Liberal National	14 May 1940
Secretary of State for Scotland	Tom Johnston	Labour	8 February 1941
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	Joseph Westwood	Labour	17 May 1940 – 23 May 1945
	Henry Wedderburn	Conservative	8 February 1941 – 4 March 1942
	Allan Chapman	Conservative	4 March 1942 – 23 May 1945
Minister of Shipping	Ronald Cross	Conservative	14 May 1940	Merged into Minister of War Transport 1 May 1941
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Shipping	Sir Arthur Salter	Independent	15 May 1940
Minister of Social Insurance	Sir William Jowitt	Labour	8 October 1944	Renamed Minister of National Insurance 17 November 1944
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance	Charles Peat	Conservative	22 March 1945
Minister of State	The Lord Beaverbrook	Conservative	1 May 1941	Member of War Cabinet
Minister of State	Oliver Lyttelton	Conservative	29 June 1941	Member of War Cabinet. Office vacant from 12 March 1942
Minister of Supply	Herbert Morrison	Labour	12 May 1940
	Sir Andrew Rae Duncan	Conservative	3 October 1940
	The Lord Beaverbrook	Conservative	29 June 1941	Member of War Cabinet
	Sir Andrew Rae Duncan	Conservative	4 February 1942
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply	Harold Macmillan	Conservative	15 May 1940 – 4 February 1942
	Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal	Conservative	4 September 1940 – 22 February 1942
	Ralph Assheton	Conservative	4 February 1942 – 7 February 1943
	Charles Peat	Conservative	4 March 1942 – 22 March 1945
	Duncan Sandys	Conservative	7 February 1943 – 21 November 1944
	John Wilmot	Labour	21 November 1944 – 23 May 1945
	James de Rothschild	Liberal	22 March 1945 – 23 May 1945
Minister of Town and Country Planning	William Morrison	Conservative	30 December 1942	Minister designate until 7 February 1943
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning	Henry Strauss	Conservative	30 December 1942
	Arthur Jenkins	Labour	22 March 1945
President of the Board of Trade	Sir Andrew Rae Duncan	Conservative	12 May 1940
	Oliver Lyttelton	Conservative	3 October 1940
	Sir Andrew Rae Duncan	Conservative	29 June 1941
	John Llewellin	Conservative	4 February 1942
	Hugh Dalton	Labour	22 February 1942
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Gwilym Lloyd-George	Liberal	15 May 1940	Also Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food from 22 October 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Charles Waterhouse	Conservative	8 February 1941
Secretary for Overseas Trade	Harcourt Johnstone	Liberal	15 May 1940
Secretary for Mines	David Grenfell	Labour	15 May 1940
Secretary for Petroleum	Geoffrey Lloyd	Conservative	15 May 1940 – 3 June 1942	Combined into Minister for Fuel and Power
Minister of Transport	Sir John Reith	National	14 May 1940
Minister of Transport	John Moore-Brabazon	Conservative	3 October 1940	became Minister of War Transport 1 May 1941
Minister of War Production	The Lord Beaverbrook	Conservative	4 February 1942	Office vacant 19 February 1942
Minister of War Production	Oliver Lyttelton	Conservative	12 March 1942	Post retitled Minister of Production upon appointment
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Production	George Garro-Jones	Labour	10 September 1942
Secretary of State for War	Anthony Eden	Conservative	11 May 1940
	David Margesson	Conservative	22 December 1940
	Sir P. J. Grigg	National	22 February 1942
Under-Secretary of State for War	Sir Henry Page Croft	Conservative	17 May 1940 – 23 May 1945	Lord Croft
	Sir Edward Grigg	Conservative	17 May 1940 – 4 March 1942
	Arthur Henderson	Labour	4 March 1942 – 7 February 1943
Financial Secretary to the War Office	Richard Law	Conservative	17 May 1940
	Duncan Sandys	Conservative	20 July 1941
	Arthur Henderson	Labour	7 February 1943
Minister of War Transport	The Lord Leathers	Conservative	1 May 1941
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of War Transport	Frederick Montague	Labour	18 May 1940 – 1 May 1941
	John Llewellin	Conservative	1 May 1941 – 4 February 1942
	Sir Arthur Salter	Independent	29 June 1941 – 4 February 1942
First Commissioner of Works	The Lord Tryon	Conservative	18 May 1940
	Sir John Reith	National	3 October 1940	Minister of Works and Buildings, and 1st Commissioner. Later Lord Reith
	The Lord Portal	Conservative	22 February 1942	Renamed Minister of Works and Planning from 11 February 1942, and Minister of Works from February 1943
	Duncan Sandys	Conservative	21 November 1944
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works	George Hicks	Labour	19 November 1940 – 23 May 1945
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works	Henry Strauss	Conservative	4 March 1942 – 30 December 1942
Attorney General	Sir Donald Somervell	Conservative	15 May 1940
Solicitor General	Sir William Jowitt	Labour	15 May 1940
Solicitor General	Sir David Maxwell Fyfe	Conservative	4 March 1942
Lord Advocate	Thomas Cooper	Conservative	15 May 1940
Lord Advocate	James Reid	Conservative	5 June 1941
Solicitor General for Scotland	James Reid	Conservative	15 May 1940
Solicitor General for Scotland	David King Murray	Conservative	5 June 1941	Knighted
Treasurer of the Household	Robert Grimston	Conservative	17 May 1940
Treasurer of the Household	Sir James Edmondson	Conservative	12 March 1942
Comptroller of the Household	William Whiteley	Labour	17 May 1940
	William John	Labour	12 March 1942
	George Mathers	Labour	2 October 1944
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Sir James Edmondson	Conservative	17 May 1940
	William Whytehead Boulton	Conservative	12 March 1942
	Arthur Young	Conservative	13 July 1944
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	The Lord Snell	Labour	31 May 1940 – 21 April 1944
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	The Earl Fortescue	Conservative	22 March 1945
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	The Lord Templemore	Conservative	31 May 1940
Lords in Waiting	The Earl Fortescue	Conservative	31 May 1940 – 22 March 1945
	The Viscount Clifden	Liberal	31 May 1940 – 23 May 1945
	The Lord Alness	Liberal National	31 May 1940 – 23 May 1945
	The Marquess of Normanby	Conservative	22 March 1945 – 23 May 1945

Changes

August 1940: Lord Beaverbrook (a Canadian-British citizen), Minister of Aircraft Production, joins the War Cabinet
October 1940: Sir John Anderson succeeds Neville Chamberlain as Lord President. Sir Kingsley Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Labour, enter the War Cabinet. Lord Halifax assumes the additional job of Leader of the House of Lords.
December 1940: Anthony Eden succeeds Lord Halifax as Foreign Secretary. Halifax remains nominally in the Cabinet as Ambassador to the United States. His successor as Leader of the House of Lords is not in the War Cabinet.
May 1941: Lord Beaverbrook ceased to be Minister of Aircraft Production, but remains in the Cabinet as Minister of State. His successor was not in the War Cabinet.
June 1941: Lord Beaverbrook becomes Minister of Supply, remaining in the War Cabinet.
1941: Oliver Lyttelton enters the Cabinet as Minister Resident in the Middle East.
4 February 1942: Lord Beaverbrook becomes Minister of War Production; his successor as Minister of Supply is not in the War Cabinet.
19 February 1942: Beaverbrook resigns and no replacement Minister of War Production is appointed for the moment. Clement Attlee becomes Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister. Sir Stafford Cripps succeeds Attlee as Lord Privy Seal and takes over the position of Leader of the House of Commons from Churchill. Sir Kingsley Wood leaves the War Cabinet, though remaining Chancellor of the Exchequer.
22 February 1942: Arthur Greenwood resigns from the War Cabinet.
March 1942: Oliver Lyttelton fills the vacant position of Minister of Production ("War" was dropped from the title). Richard Gardiner Casey (a member of the Australian Parliament) succeeds Oliver Lyttelton as Minister Resident in the Middle East.
October 1942: Sir Stafford Cripps retires as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons and leaves the War Cabinet. His successor as Lord Privy Seal is not in the Cabinet, Anthony Eden takes the additional position of Leader of the House of Commons. The Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, enters the Cabinet.
September 1943: Sir John Anderson succeeds Sir Kingsley Wood (deceased) as Chancellor of the Exchequer, remaining in the War Cabinet. Clement Attlee succeeds Anderson as Lord President, remaining also Deputy Prime Minister. Attlee's successor as Dominions Secretary is not in the Cabinet.
November 1943: Lord Woolton enters the Cabinet as Minister of Reconstruction.
January to November 1944: Lord Moyne replaces Richard Gardiner Casey as Minister Resident in the Middle East.

References

D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000.
Photo of the Churchill Coalition Government 1940–45 from the website of the Imperial War Museum.

↑ Cawood, Ian (10 May 2013). "Liberal-Conservative Coalitions - 'a farce and a fraud'?". History & Policy. History & Policy. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
1 2 3 4 Successor not in cabinet.
↑ Left the war cabinet but remained chancellor.

British governments

Great Britain (1707–1801)	Godolphin–Marlborough Harley Townshend Stanhope–Sunderland I Stanhope–Sunderland II Walpole–Townshend Walpole Carteret Broad Bottom Short-lived Ministry Newcastle I Pitt–Devonshire 1757 caretaker Newcastle II Bute Grenville Rockingham I Chatham Grafton North Rockingham II Shelburne Fox–North (Portland I) Pitt the Younger I

UK (GB & Ire) (1801–1922)	Addington Pitt the Younger II All the Talents Portland II Perceval Liverpool Canning Goderich Wellington Grey Melbourne I Wellington Caretaker Peel I Melbourne II Peel II Russell I Who? Who? (Derby I) Aberdeen Palmerston I Derby II Palmerston II Russell II Derby III Disraeli I Gladstone I Disraeli II Gladstone II Salisbury I Gladstone III Salisbury II Gladstone IV Rosebery Salisbury III Balfour Campbell-Bannerman Asquith (I·II) Lloyd George

UK (GB & NI) (1922–present)	Bonar Law Baldwin I MacDonald I Baldwin II MacDonald II National Government (I·II·III·IV) Chamberlain War Churchill War Churchill Caretaker Attlee Churchill III Eden Macmillan Douglas-Home Wilson I Heath Wilson II Callaghan Thatcher (I·II·III) Major (I·II) Blair Brown Cameron (I·II) May

Current ministry