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First Secretary of State is an office that is sometimes held by a minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom held by the most senior secretary of state. The office is not always in
Louise Haigh Cabinet Office Portrait 2026
Rab Butler in 1963
George Brown 1967
Michael Stewart
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet,
First Secretary of State
…swapped for Deputy Prime Minister in 2021. Like the deputy prime minister, the first secretary enjoys no right of automatic succession to the office of Prime Minister. When Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit on 6 April 2020, after contracting COVID-19, First Secretary Dominic Raab was…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham portrait
Robert Walpole was the first to hold the position of Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain alongside his cabinet on the eve of World War II in September 1939
Prime Minister David Cameron announcing the approval of more free schools across the country as a part of his education policy on 9 March 2015