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Commonly regarded as the first British Prime Minister
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Robert Walpole
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Oversaw the founding of the NHS
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Clement Attlee
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Was a woman (name any of them)
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Margaret Thatcher; Theresa May; Liz Truss
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Was assassinated
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Spencer Perceval
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The first Labour Prime Minister
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Ramsay MacDonald
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The most recent Liberal (or Liberal Democrat) Prime Minister
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David Lloyd George
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Founded the Metropolitan Police Service
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Robert Peel
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Wrote and published sixteen novels, one of which was subtitled "a moral tale, though gay"
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Held all four Great Offices of State (PM, Chancellor, Home Secretary, and Foreign Secretary)
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James Callaghan
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Was despised by the suffragette movement for his refusal to grant women the vote, causing them to try to burn down a theatre he was in and throw an axe at his head on the same day
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H. H. Asquith
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Led a "caretaker ministry" for a month whilst waiting for the next Prime Minister to return from holiday in Italy
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Duke of Wellington
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Was born outside of the British Isles (name either of them)
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Andrew Bonar Law; Boris Johnson
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The most recent Prime Minister who was born in Edinburgh
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Tony Blair
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The most recent Prime Minister who didn't go to university
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John Major
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The most recent person to have been Prime Minister whilst (briefly) being a member of the House of Lords
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Alec Douglas-Home
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The only 20th-century Conservative leader, apart from William Hague, who was never Prime Minister (first name and last name required)
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Austen Chamberlain
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Was the Earl of a port city in northern England
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Earl of Liverpool
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The namesake of a contentious UK government declaration relating to Israel and Palestine
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Arthur Balfour
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The namesake of a convention that says the House of Lords shall not try to prevent any legislation that was promised in the government's election manifesto
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Lord Salisbury
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Led what is sometimes known as the "Who? Who?" ministry
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Earl of Derby
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b) it's bizarre that some questions are 'name any of them', where some are only 'the most recent' - could these be made more consistent?
nonetheless this is a great quiz!