Notable Achievements
- changed party: Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Derby, Gladstone, Churchill (twice)
- died in office: Palmerston
- died shortly after leaving office: Campbell-Bannerman, Bonar Law, Chamberlain
- left Parliament on leaving office: Russell, Baldwin, Blair
- long career after being Prime Minister: Rosebery, Balfour, Lloyd George, Heath
- served as Prime Minister after an interruption to their political career: MacDonald, Churchill, Macmillan (twice), Douglas-Home
- lived for more than twenty years after leaving Parliament: Macmillan, Douglas-Home, Thatcher
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