More Non-British Prime Ministers of the UK

So in OTL the only British PM who wasn't British by birth was Andrew Bonar Law, but what if more citizens from the rest of the Empire were elected to Parliament and became PM?

Who would be the likelyest candidates and what would the effects be?
 
Um, being born in British North America still makes him British just not English, Scottish, etc (yes, I know it's more complicated than that:rolleyes:)

That said I don't think it's out of the realms of possibilities for those born outside the UK but within British Territory to become PM (after all the Isle of Mann isn't part of the UK though of the British Isles). Simply have another person who immigrated to the "home countries" in their childhood get involved in politics.

Or you could promote a tendency for Colonial Secretaries to have raised in the colonies they are secretary of (tho maybe a tad ASB here) and have them invited by the reigning monarch to be PM.

I do believe (if we're following as close to OTL as possible) that the window of opportunity for politicians born outside the UK is limited to the latter half of the 1800s. Earlier than that and they are just not well known within UK to have a power base, later than that are they just are not UK centric enough.

Hope this helps. But also see 037771 and EdT for that period of British history :)
 
Well, the likeliest candidate for a non-British born PM is probably Jan Smuts; IIRC there was a plan for him to be installed as an Imperial Premier if Churchill keeled over mid-WW2.

Beyond that, you might be able to do something with Alfred Milner, although he was always more of an eminence grise then a frontline politician. A fair few Dominion politicians had links to the UK- for example Charles Tupper (Canada's shortest-serving PM) went to university in Scotland, and might have been induced to stay. In a more modern setting, Bryan Gould was born in New Zealand and in a TL where John Smith, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair all die in a car crash he could have taken the Labour Party into Government...
 
Sir Robert Menzies the long serving Australian Prime Minister is said to had plans to enter the British parliment sometime during the early years of WWII.

In 1941 Menzies spent months in Britain discussing war strategy with Winston Churchill and other leaders, while his position at home deteriorated. The Australian historian David Day has suggested that Menzies hoped to replace Churchill as British Prime Minister, and that he had some support in Britain for this
 
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