UK Prime Minsters 1960-2020

1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
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1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
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1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
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1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2001: Paddy Ashdown (Lib-Lab Coalition)
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1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2001: Paddy Ashdown (Lib-Lab Coalition)
2005: Robin Cook (Lab-Lib Coalition)
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1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2001: Paddy Ashdown (Lib-Lab Coalition)
2005: Robin Cook (Lab-Lib Coalition)
2010: Andrew Adonis (Liberal Democratic and Labour Party)*
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2020:

*After years of coalitions, the Liberal Party and the Labour Party merged, bringing in the seven MPs of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (formed by Charles Kennedy in 1992) to form a broad left-of-centre party.
 
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2001: Paddy Ashdown (Lib-Lab Coalition)
2005: Robin Cook (Lab-Lib Coalition)
2010: Andrew Adonis (Liberal Democratic and Labour Party)*
2015: Andrew Adonis (LDLP)**
2020:

*After years of coalitions, the Liberal Party and the Labour Party merged, bringing in the seven MPs of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (formed by Charles Kennedy in 1992) to form a broad left-of-centre party.

**Minority government, with confidence-and-supply from the Ecology Party, Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Socialists.
 
1951: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1955: Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1959: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1964: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1973: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1978: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1981: Nigel Lawson (Conservative)
1983: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1987: David Steel (Liberal)
1992: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
Feb 1994: Shirley Williams (Lab-Lib Coalition)
1997: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2001: Paddy Ashdown (Lib-Lab Coalition)
2005: Robin Cook (Lab-Lib Coalition)
2010: Andrew Adonis (Liberal Democratic and Labour Party)*
2015: Andrew Adonis (LDLP)**
2020: Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative)
 
Thorneycroft would give you a quarter-century of Thatcherism, 20 years earlier than OTL. So the UK would look very different, and since all the non-Tory PMs are either moderates (Jenkins, Steel, Ashdown, Adonis) or restrained by a coalition (Cook), everything was left in place. Did Thorneycroft privatize the BBC and reduce the NHS (by spending cuts) to something like American Medicare/aid, only for the elderly and those who can't afford private healthcare? Those are the only two major things Thatcher and Major could not touch. NHS probably not, but perhaps the BBC. I wonder if the Beeb would last more than 18 months in the private sector without subsidies to keep it alive. :p
 
Thorneycroft would give you a quarter-century of Thatcherism, 20 years earlier than OTL. So the UK would look very different, and since all the non-Tory PMs are either moderates (Jenkins, Steel, Ashdown, Adonis) or restrained by a coalition (Cook), everything was left in place. Did Thorneycroft privatize the BBC and reduce the NHS (by spending cuts) to something like American Medicare/aid, only for the elderly and those who can't afford private healthcare? Those are the only two major things Thatcher and Major could not touch. NHS probably not, but perhaps the BBC. I wonder if the Beeb would last more than 18 months in the private sector without subsidies to keep it alive. :p

So a much-streamlined NHS, and a mass media effortlessly straddled by Murdoch? Eep.

Still, I can see the 2000s might have given birth to a left-of-centre version of the Big Society. This, backed up with some kind of non-ideological commitment to co-operatives, could have given us a localist and decentralised welfare-state-lite. Plus, with Adonis, the rail network would have kicked ass.
 
That sounds reasonable. I don't know enough about UK politics to help a lot on the TL, but I'm sure there are many Britons who can.
 
Thorneycroft would give you a quarter-century of Thatcherism, 20 years earlier than OTL.

Errr. No. Not even close in fact. Thorneycroft was a financial disciplinarian and on the right of the party in that sense, but he was hardly a 'Thatcherite' in any sense that it would be understood today - the man was one of the original cheerleaders of reforming the party post-1945 in order to accomodate the welfare state, and he was very strongly pro-Europe as well, it's worth noting. Thorneycroft wasn't so much the ur-Thatcher as the ur-Geoffrey Howe.

So congrats - you've just set kept alive the post-war consensus from the right and put Britain at the heart of Europe. (Strangely, with Roy Jenkins et al and coalition politics following afterwards, the list of PMs makes almost perfect sense within that context)
 
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