Labour Party (UK) - Labour Prime Ministers

Labour Prime Ministers

Name Portrait Country of birth Periods in Office
Ramsay MacDonald Scotland 1924; 1929–1931
(First and Second MacDonald ministry)
Clement Attlee England 1945–1950; 1950–1951
(Attlee ministry)
Harold Wilson England 1964–1966; 1966–1970; 1974; 1974–1976
(First and Second Wilson ministry)
James Callaghan England 1976–1979
(Callaghan ministry)
Tony Blair Scotland 1997–2001; 2001–2005; 2005–2007
(Blair ministry)
Gordon Brown Scotland 2007–2010
(Brown ministry)

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