List of Deputy Prime Ministers
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Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats| Name | Picture | Term of Office | Political party and position | Ministerial Offices | Prime Minister | |||
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| Clement Attlee | 19 February 1942 | 23 May 1945 | Labour (Leader) |
Deputy Prime Minister Dominions Secretary Lord President of the Council |
Winston Churchill |
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| Herbert Morrison | 26 July 1945 | 26 October 1951 | Labour (Deputy Leader) | Deputy Prime Minister Lord President of the Council Leader of the House of Commons Foreign Secretary |
Clement Attlee | |||
| Anthony Eden | 26 October 1951 | 6 April 1955 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister Foreign Secretary |
Winston Churchill | |||
| Office not in use | 1955–1962 | Anthony Eden | ||||||
| Harold Macmillan | ||||||||
| R. A. Butler | 13 July 1962 | 18 October 1963 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister First Secretary of State |
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| Office not in use | 1963–1979 | Alec Douglas-Home | ||||||
| Harold Wilson | ||||||||
| Edward Heath | ||||||||
| Harold Wilson | ||||||||
| James Callaghan | ||||||||
| William Whitelaw |
4 May 1979 | 10 January 1988 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister Home Secretary Lord President of the Council Leader of the House of Lords |
Margaret Thatcher | |||
| Sir Geoffrey Howe | 24 July 1989 | 1 November 1990 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister Lord President of the Council Leader of the House of Commons |
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| Office not in use | 1990–1995 | John Major | ||||||
| Michael Heseltine | 20 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | Deputy Prime Minister First Secretary of State |
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| John Prescott | 2 May 1997 | 27 June 2007 | Labour (Deputy Leader) | Deputy Prime Minister Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions First Secretary of State |
Tony Blair | |||
| Office not in use | 2007–2010 | Gordon Brown | ||||||
| Nick Clegg | 11 May 2010 | Incumbent | Liberal Democrats (Leader) |
Deputy Prime Minister Lord President of the Council Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform |
David Cameron |
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