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British Prime Ministers by a Single Clue

Can you identify these British Prime Ministers based on a random fact about their lives and careers?
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Last updated: April 19, 2025
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This Prime Minister resigned in 2016 in the wake of the UK electorate's vote to leave the European Union.
David Cameron
"Education, education, education" and "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" were among this Prime Minister's famous slogans.
Tony Blair
This Prime Minister is sometimes credited with the invention of soft-scoop ice cream, which they developed during an early career as a research chemist.
Margaret Thatcher
While serving as Home Secretary, this Prime Minister was credited with establishing the UK's first modern police force.
Robert Peel
The first Prime Minister who was not born within the geographical territory of the United Kingdom.
Andrew Bonar Law
Famously, this Prime Minister's premiership was outlasted by a lettuce.
Liz Truss
This Prime Minister's public reputation declined while he presided over the infamous 'Winter of Discontent'.
James Callaghan
'Primrose Day' celebrates the life of this person, the first Jewish person to serve as Prime Minister.
Benjamin Disraeli
This first Labour Prime Minister was eventually expelled from his own Party.
Ramsay MacDonald
The first and longest-serving Prime Minister.
Robert Walpole
The last person to serve as Prime Minister while a member of the House of Lords.
Marquess of Salisbury
The latter part of this Prime Minister's government was marred by the Profumo scandal.
Harold Macmillan
This Prime Minister's government issued sweeping welfare reforms, including the introduction of the National Health Service.
Clement Attlee
This Prime Minister's first government introduced landmark legislation decriminalising homosexuality and abolishing the death penalty in Britain.
Harold Wilson
While serving as Foreign Secretary, this man was apocryphally credited with coining the phrase "gunboat diplomacy" during the 1850 Don Pacifico Affair.
Lord Palmerston
This Prime Minister attempted to unlawfully prorogue Parliament in order to force through a 'no-deal' Brexit.
Boris Johnson
The only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated in office.
Spencer Perceval
After an ill-judged snap election, this Conservative Prime Minister was forced to form a coalition with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party
Theresa May
Prior to entering politics, this man led the British Army to victory at Seringatapam, Vitoria and, most famously, Waterloo.
Duke of Wellington
Before becoming Prime Minister, this former Rector of Edinburgh University was the longest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer in British political history.
Gordon Brown
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XYU
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Apr 25, 2025
Enjoyed it, Rob.

The Duke of Wellington was born in Ireland, though, and he was earlier, so that one will have to change. Also, the PM who was a Lyons employee didn't work inventing that product, as far as we know.

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