Did not know this thread existed before attempting to start up another thread.
Below is a rough draft List of UK PMs up to present (circa 2020 from time of this post).
1900:
Arthur Balfour (Conservative)
1904:
Joseph Chamberlain (Liberal) [1]
1908:
Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1910:
Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1916:
David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1918:
David Lloyd George (Liberal) [2]
1922:
Bonar Law (Conservative)
1923:
Ramsey MacDonald (Labour)
1924:
Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
1929:
Austen Chamberlain (Liberal) [3]
1934:
Austen Chamberlain (Liberal)
1937:
Neville Chamberlain (Conservative)
1940:
Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1945:
Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1946:
Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951:
Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1955:
Rab Butler (Conservative) [5]
1959:
Rab Butler (Conservative)
1964:
Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) [6]
1967:
Harold Wilson (Labour) [7] [8]
1970:
Enoch Powell (National Liberal) [9]
1974:
James Callaghan (Labour)
1979:
Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1983:
Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1987:
Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1992:
Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) [10]
1993:
Michael Portillo (Conservative)
1996:
Margaret Beckett (Labour) [11]
2000:
John Redwood or Michael Howard (Conservative) [12]
2005:
David Miliband (Labour)
2010:
Liam Fox (Conservative)
2015:
Liam Fox (Conservative)
2020:
Boris Johnson (Conservative)
[1] - Joseph Chamberlain wins his 3rd and final term as Prime Minister, which amongst other things was notable for Charles Mertz successfully persuading Parliament to unify electrical standards. His pre-1900s Premierships (1892-1900) were a result of never defecting thanks to another version of Irish Home Rule and No Crawford Scandal involving Charles Dilke, leading to his son Austen remain a part of the Liberals while his other son Neville would eventually join the Conservative party.
[2] - The Liberals reunited in 1918 and managed to finish second in the 1922/1923 with David Lloyd George, preventing a return to the pre-war Gold Standard.
[3] - Austen Chamberlain's 1929 UK Election win enables him to implement much of the ATL 1928 Liberal Manifesto / Yellow Book (aka OTL 1928 Liberal Manifesto / Yellow Book under David Lloyd George) which helped strengthen the British economy (allowing it to recover from the Depression much quickly) and significantly improve infrastructures (contributing to British’s rearmament process being much faster and helping the UK perform much better in WW2). Austen's Pro–Rearmament stance would stand in stark contrast to his half-brother Neville's Pro-Appeasement stance, leading to a bitter interwar Chamberlain (Liberal) vs Chamberlain (Conservative) rivalry that is only settled with the premature passing of Austen and subsequent ascension of Neville as Prime Minister from 1937. Despite Neville's Pro-Appeasement policy being implemented as in OTL, Austen's crucial pre-war Pro-Rearmenmant Policy together with his role in the UK's quick recovery from the Great Depression would leave the country in much better position upon the outbreak of WW2.
[4] – ATL 1945 UK Election was similar to OTL 1950 UK Election with Attlee winning by a narrow majority in 1945, the instability of the Attlee Premiership and knowledge it was unlikely to last more than a year before being replaced by Winston Churchill prompted the US to provide post-war UK with significantly more Marshal Plan aid compared to real-life under the OTL Attlee government with a landslide majority (that in tandem with other pre-war and interwar PODs allowed the UK to quickly recover from WW2).
[5] – Rab Butler succeeds Winston Churchill in place of both Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, his premiership also being notable for successfully implementing Operation ROBOT economic policy (as well as like OTL
Harold Macmillan encouraging
Fedden Motors - composite of VW, Renault and BL named after Sir Roy Fedden resulting in a role during UK equivalent of Years of Lead, most Light-Automobile Class carmakers - think UK sub-Mini analogue of Japan's Kei Cars and others to build new factories in depressed enterprise areas while unlike OTL Harold Macmillan allowing established carmakers to continue expanding existing factories).
[6] – A surviving Hugh Gaitskell wins 1964 UK Election on a Pro-Nuclear Anti-Nationalisation Anti-EEC platform after the UK’s entry to the EEC was approved in 1963 (partly a result of Charles de Gaulle being assassinated in 1961 when his car was hit by a bomb near the village of Crancey in the Pont-sur-Seine district). The UK under Gaitskell would also end up getting involved in the Vietnam War in a limited form by sending a
token force to Vietnam as a result of President Johnson offering to pay Billions (more than the cost of any British military force) in the form additional assistance for the £ Pound Sterling, with large sums being transferred to the UK allowing it to pay off the Anglo-American loan to the US much earlier, reduce the UK national debt to being almost debt-free as well as initiate various infrastructure projects and cultivate various industries.
[6] – Hugh Gaitskell manages to revoke Clause IV of the Labour Constitution on the grounds of it being a political liability in the face of public opposition responsible for Labour's 1959 Election loss, which led to the revived British Socialist Party (later renamed Socialist Labour) being formerly led by the likes of Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and others who were previously part of the Left wing of Labour known as the Bevanites that left the party after the 1959 UK general election. Socialist Labour was once the 4th largest party in the UK partly due to militant union backing before declining into total irrelevance as a major political force. It would be followed by another exodus a decade later (with an additional breakaway party from the basis of the alternate Liberal Democrats) when Barbara Castle’s 1968-1969 “In place of Strife” White Paper was passed into law causing the Right wing of the Labour party known as the Gaitskellites / Blue Labour / Co-operative party to dominate (despite persistent entryism and attempts by returning ex-Labour members of the British Socialist Party later renamed Socialist Labour to make the Gaitskellite dominated Labour party unelectable especially after the arrest of former temporary Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1974).
[7] – Harold Wilson became temporary Prime Minister upon Hugh Gaiskell’s sudden death in 1967 ahead of a then cancelled crucial vote on whether or not to leave the EEC. He would continue to be the centre of allegations of being a Soviet agent as well as claims Hugh Gaitskell was assassinated by the KGB to Wilson’s benefit, leading to him later being arrested during the 1974 UK Election by MI5.
[8] Years (or Decade) of Strife – Best described as a UK version of Italy’s Years of Lead, it was a period of social and political turmoil in the UK that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1970s, marked by a wave of both left-wing and right-wing incidents of political terrorism both domestically as well as outside of the UK (targeting UK interests). The Years (or Decade) of Strife are often considered to have begun with the strikes at the Government and Co-Op owned Fedden Motors starting in 1969 as a result of Barbara Castle’s “In Place of Strife” white paper being approved, which unleashed a violent reaction by militant trade unions / workforce and other communist subversives with incidents including the assassinations of Fedden’s CEO as well as of former foreign secretary Anthony Eden and an
Aldo Moro-like kidnapping/assassination attempt of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson (ostensibly for passing Barbara Castle’s 1968-1969 “In place of Strife” White Paper along with continued British involvement in Vietnam with terrorists intending to demand the release of imprisoned Left-wing terrorists in exchange for Wilson’s freedom), prior to a crackdown by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and culminating in the raid / arrest / imprisonment of prominent communist trade union officials and others (including Derek Robinson aka Red Robbo, Alan Thornett, Bobby Fryer, etc) being caught in a drug sting operation with others fleeing to France during the 1980s under the
Mitterrand doctrine (that soured relations between the UK and France and played a role later on in the dissolution of the EEC).
[9] – Outsider Enoch Powell defeated both the Conservatives under Edward Heath and Labour under Harold Wilson in the 1970 UK Election as leader of the National Liberal Party, the latter was revived by the left wing of the Conservatives / Red Tories who broke away from the original mainstream Conservative Party sometime after the UK joined the EEC / European Economic Community in 1963 and successfully managed to tap into public sentiment during the early years of what became known as the “Years (or Decade) of Strife”. However the party would decline after Enoch Powell was unexpectedly defeated in 1974 by Labour under James Callaghan, with a number of MPs switching to other parties. Otherwise unsure what a Premiership under Enoch Powell was resemble in such a scenario.
[10] Margaret Thatcher manages to survive the 1990 leadership challenge as well as win the 1992 UK elections (thanks to her skilled handling of the 1990s recession and defying the European Community to keep interest rates low enough by drastically cutting it by 5% to keep the economy more or less stable as well as the old “Falklands Factor”, where she threw the Patriotic bone at the public at the right time), prior to later leaving the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) and rejecting the Maastricht Treaty followed by Denmark and France (leading to the dissolution of the EEC and the European Free Trade Association / EFTA effectively becoming the single largest trade bloc in Europe by default) with Michael Portillo shortly succeeding her as Prime Minister from early 1993 onwards.
Inspired by
SadSprinter's Thatcher Survives thread
[11] – Possibly with Tony Blair and John Prescott being First Ministers of Scotland and Wales respectively as a result of the West Lothian question being resolved (either recently or decades earlier unsure who could be Labour First Minister of England though or whether Conservatives manage to retain England during Election)
[12] - The alternate Fuel Protests in 2000 (along with proposed Ultra Low Emissions Zone laws that would have effectively banned diesel and petrol-powered private cars from the city centre as well as in outer London beyond the North and South circular roads on the same boundary as the current truck/bus Low Emission Zone, raising the cost of motoring while driving millions of working and middle class people off of the roads) served as one of number of catalyses that brought down the premiership of Margaret Beckett and Labour, after Labour attempted to increase the Fuel Duty from 62.5% to 90%. With Beckett being replaced by a minority Conservative government under either John Redwood or Michael Howard.
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Additional Notes-
- Trying to figure how to account for post-war splits from both Conservative (e.g. National Liberal aka Left Conservatives / Red Tories) and Labour (e.g. Socialist / Socialist Labour, ATL Liberal Democrats distant from ATL Liberals) Parties.
- Another would be an ATL Liberal Party that despite the premature passing of ATL PM Austen Chamberlain somehow manages to remain a competitive force in UK politics from the 1945 UK elections up to the present day with at least over 100 seats or at other times more than 26% of the vote, partly supplemented by right-leaning ex-Labour members or former left-leaning Conservatives / National Liberal members yet so far not quite gaining power (except possibly via collation in ATL 1996 Election) though not sure which ATL Liberal candidates would be capable of becoming the first post-war Liberal PM (aside from possibly Harold Macmillan, Michael Heseltine, etc).
- Envision the West Lothian Question being resolved either pre-war or post-war with the UK getting a devolved English Parliament either based in Leeds, Manchester, York or Winchester as well as an English First minister, which could serve to partly explain both post-war Conservative dominance in ATL post-war UK Elections where they still potentially dominate England even despite losing UK Elections outside of party splits / breakaways. etc.
- And lastly wondering which other Party candidates could potentially succeed Margaret Beckett at Labour and John Redwood or Michael Howard under the Tories as leaders / potential PM candidates from 2000 onwards up to the present in place of David Miliband, Liam Fox and Boris Johnson. Particularly after a candidate or few to capable of leading the UK towards adopting proportional representation voting system for elections by way of Single Transferable Vote aka STV via Condorcet Method (as well as proportional representation divided by sex) in place of the then existing first-past-the-post voting system and Voter ID Law (plus raising voting age to 25 and the abolition of Postal Voting except for severely disabled residents, the sick and armed forces only) as well as implementing the 6 demands of the Harrogate Agenda, a movement aimed at making the citizens of the UK legally sovereign over both Parliament and the Crown as well as embracing a federal system for all home nations with each having its own devolved parliament / assembly as well as a written constitution along with Swiss-style Semi-Direct/Direct Democracy.