Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the highest elected office in the United Kingdom. The current Prime Minister is Gordon Brown.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the political party which wins most seats in the House of Commons. Voters vote for their own local MP, not for the Prime Minister.
The first Prime Minister was Robert Walpole in the eighteenth century, but he was known as the First Lord of the Treasury. The first person to be officially called "Prime Minister" was Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1905.
Other well-known prime ministers include Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.
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