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