Minister Without Portfolio - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, it is often a Cabinet position, and is sometimes used to get people such as the Chairman of the Conservative Party or the Labour Party Chairman into cabinet meetings (if so, they hold the title of "Party Chairman"). The sinecure positions of Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which have few responsibilities and have a higher rank in the Order of Precedence than Minister without Portfolio can also be used for similar effect.

  • The Duke of Portland (Whig) (1805–1806)
  • The Earl Fitzwilliam (Whig) (1806–1807)
  • The Marquess Camden (Tory) (1812)
  • The Earl Mulgrave (Tory) (1819–1820)
  • The Marquess of Lansdowne (Whig) (Apr-Jul 1827 and 1852–1858)
  • The Duke of Portland (Tory) (Jul-Sep 1827)
  • The Earl of Carlisle (Tory and Whig) (1830–1834)
  • The Duke of Wellington (Tory) (1841–1846)
  • Lord John Russell (Liberal and Whig) (1853–1854)
  • Spencer Horatio Walpole (Conservative) (1867–1868)
  • Sir Michael Hicks Beach (Conservative) (1887–1888)
  • The Marquess of Lansdowne (Liberal Unionist) (1915–1916)
  • Arthur Henderson (Labour) (1916–1917)
  • Lord Milner (Conservative) (1916–1918)
  • Austen Chamberlain (Conservative Party) (April 1918 - January 1919)
  • Jan Smuts (South African Party and United Party) (1917–1919)
  • Sir Edward Carson (Irish Unionist Alliance and Ulster Unionist Party) (1917–1919)
  • George Barnes (Labour) (1917–1920)
  • Sir Eric Geddes (Conservative) (Jan-Oct 1919)
  • Sir Laming Worthington-Evans (Conservative) (1920–1921)
  • Christopher Addison (Liberal and Labour) (1921–1922)
  • Anthony Eden (Conservative) (Jun-Dec 1935)
  • Lord Eustace Percy (Conservative) (1935–1936)
  • Leslie Burgin (National Liberal Party) (Apr-Jul 1939)
  • Lord Hankey (1939–1940)
  • Arthur Greenwood (Labour) (1940–1942)
  • Sir William Jowitt (Labour) (1942–1944)
  • A. V. Alexander (Labour) (Oct-Dec 1946)
  • Arthur Greenwood (Labour) (Apr-Sept 1947)
  • The Earl of Munster (Conservative) (1954–1957)
  • Viscount Mills (Conservative) (1961–1962)
  • William Francis Deedes (Conservative) (1962–1964)
  • Lord Carrington (Conservative) (1963–1964)
  • George Morgan Thomson (Labour (1968–1969)
  • Lord Drumalbyn (Unionist Party and National Liberal Party) (1970–1974)
  • Lord Young (Conservative) (1984–1985)
  • Jeremy Hanley (Conservative) (1994–1995)
  • Brian Mawhinney (Conservative) (1995–1997)
  • Peter Mandelson (Labour) (1997–1998)
  • Charles Clarke (Labour) (2001–2002)
  • John Reid (Labour) (2002–2003)
  • Ian McCartney (Labour) (2003–2006)
  • Hazel Blears (Labour) (2006–2007)
  • Baroness Warsi (Conservative) (2010–2012)
  • Ken Clarke and Grant Shapps (Conservative) (2012-present)

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