Top 10 Worst Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Leading a country is no easy task, and being Prime Minister of the United Kingdom comes with an overwhelming amount of responsibility. Some leaders rise to the occasion, steering the nation through crises and leaving behind policies that stand the test of time. Others… not so much. Poor decisions, economic disasters, political scandals, and a general inability to handle the job have all contributed to certain Prime Ministers earning a less-than-glowing reputation.This list is dedicated to those leaders who, for one reason or another, are remembered more for their failures than their successes. Maybe they made disastrous policy choices that sent the economy into a tailspin. Maybe they fumbled their way through major crises, losing the trust of the public along the way. Some struggled with party divisions, while others seemed completely out of their depth from day one.
Of course, not everyone will agree on who deserves to be called the worst. One person's disaster is another's misunderstood reformer. Some Prime Ministers who were widely hated at the time have been reassessed more positively years later, while others just keep looking worse with age.
This list is shaped by votes, so if you think a particular Prime Minister deserves to be at the top (or bottom, depending on how you look at it), make sure to have your say.

This guy is the reason why we didn't exit lockdown permanently during spring-summer (early autumn at most) of 2020. His incompetence has my city, Liverpool, and other places in England and the rest of the UK up the wall. I hope this pot noodle (pot of noodles for you Yanks and others who might not have it) and his gang of idiots are never allowed to run the country again permanently. Anti Tory Organisation everyone.
I am a liberal conservative out. They don't know how to run a country because they care for themselves and themselves only. They will never start caring unless we go down to 10 Downing Street and meet the man himself and start tearing his office down until he gives in to the demands of the ATO.
This man is somehow worse than Theresa May, who I already despised. I say we eliminate him and finally get a prime minister with a brain cell. They don't have to be any sort of Winston Churchill, but they certainly cannot be any Boris Johnson of any sort.

Neville Chamberlain did not stand up to Adolf Hitler in the early part of the 1930s and did not do anything to prevent World War Two from kicking off. This made him a weak leader as Britain was sitting on its bottom hoping that everything would calm down. Neville Chamberlain made chronic errors in the first year of the war because he still believed the war could end before anyone was killed, which wasn't the reality.
Agreeing to peace accords with Hitler while being mocked by him? Really? It doesn't even take hindsight to see that it was going to take more than a piece of paper to deter Hitler from his plans.

Oh, poor Mrs. May. I hope she is currently running through fields of wheat and giggling at the fact that she will not be remembered as the worst female prime minister in history anymore.
Theresa May called a snap general election in 2017, losing her majority in the process. She then had to face countless rebellions of her own party during the Brexit negotiations, which fractured the party and parliament so much it turned into a civil war in the Commons. Theresa May had no control over her party and the government. She suffered British political history record defeats in the House of Commons and failed to deliver Brexit.

My views are complicated on this one. She certainly moved economic and societal mountains, sadly often in the wrong direction. She created a more unequal society and a volatile, short-term gain economy. She should really have been sacked for her privatization of water, school meals, and mental asylums. She normalized and benefited from Euroskepticism and anti-immigration sentiment. Horrible housing policy. She spread her brand of toxic neoliberal hogwash to developing countries that were not ready for it, but that is not entirely her fault.
Decent foreign policy, if one ignores her erroneous Anglo-American obsession as well as her racism. (Surprisingly good on Rhodesia, South Africa, Eastern Europe, the Cold War, and the Falklands. She should have been a war leader.) She did many things that were necessary, but in the harshest and least compassionate way possible. Very nice sense of style and diction. Huge homophobe and believer in dysfunctional and oppressive "Victorian values."
Overall, a greedy hypocrite who, at least, seemed to truly believe in the causes she was championing. I also appreciate her early awareness of climate change and her AIDS campaign, though that was done in spite of rather than because of the old bat.
To summarize: Handbagging Joan of Arc on crack.

An arrogant, destructive creature. To satisfy fifty-seven of his MPs, he dragged the UK into the most incredible error it has ever undertaken. His lack of preparation, good leadership, effective communication, and good arguments led this country into the swamp of Brexit. In past times, he would have ended up in the Tower of London, where Boris could join him.
He promised a European referendum and, as a statesman, should have represented the voice of the people. Instead, he left politics completely and left his country in the mess he created. He continued with excessive cuts and privatization even when the economy was doing relatively well.
London Riots. NHS privatization. ATOS. Shame on you.

Managed to cause an admirable amount of damage to the market and the health of the pound during the 42 days she was in charge. Went out like a coward by sacking her only true political ally.
Also, too many speeches about British cheese. (Very odd.)
A complete and utter disgrace of a woman. She failed as Prime Minister, failed to retain her seat in the last general election, and is now proving to be anti-free speech by trying to get a man arrested who did nothing more than play a harmless prank on her. Why should we care about anything regarding this (for want of a better word) failure?

Worst Chancellor of the Exchequer and worst Prime Minister. As Chancellor, he sold gold at a record low price, taxed private pensions, increased borrowing of public money consistently (therefore increased the national debt), put a 10% tax rate for the lowest earners, and let property prices skyrocket. As Prime Minister, he failed to steer Britain away from the 2008 recession (causing higher numbers of unemployment), labelled a lifelong supporter a 'bigot' for her concerns over Labour's mass immigration policy, and continued to borrow more money.

Developer of the Government against Unions policy that Thatcher developed into a science. Four-day weeks, power rationing... seems like a doddle all these years later, after the mangle recent governments have designed for us to negotiate.
The European Union sucks, and this nincompoop got us into this darned union. Deserves to be higher than Johnson, seeing as Johnson got us out of the EU and helped us get through the Coronavirus.
The worst. Got us into the European Union and brought the country to its knees economically.

Boy, was Winston right when he said Anthony Eden wasn't up for the job. He served as Prime Minister for two years, and within that time, he had started a lot of conflict between Israel and Britain. After years of waiting in Winston Churchill's shadow, Eden finally became Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister in 1955 when Churchill resigned due to ill health. He may have strengthened the Conservatives' majority in an election when he took over, but Eden's premiership was short-lived and ended in failure thanks to the Suez Crisis, in which Eden attempted to take the Suez Canal. Things did not go to plan, and he received "widespread international condemnation."

I suppose he helped by following Wilson's recipe to the extent that it became blindingly obvious that 70s lefties couldn't run the country. So obvious that Foot, Kinnock, etc. didn't get anywhere.
Pompous and out of touch with the country.
The Newcomers

This man is an enemy of the British people. The tip of the iceberg was the reveal this week that he has approved a £50 million climate control programme.
What could possibly go wrong?
Keir Starmer is on par with Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron for austerity.
Prefers foreigners over Brits.

The Prime Minister who lost America. Before Lord North came to power, Britain ruled much of North America. By the time he left, only Canada remained. It was Lord North who picked the fight with the American colonists and managed to oversee an idiotic foreign policy, which led to the French, Spanish, and even the Dutch siding with the fledgling United States against Britain.
Obvious dimwit when it comes to international relations. An imperialist too.
One of the early Eton boys that managed to knacker the UK by being inept. Lost the Americas by being a knob end.

I can't believe this war criminal has a Knighthood and is idolised by the current Labour Leader, Sir Keir Starmer. Tony Blair and the last Labour Government (1997-2010) are responsible for the social and economic decline of Britain: uncontrolled mass immigration, soft on crime (e.g., ASBOs), lowering education standards/discipline, introducing university tuition fees, the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and introducing the Human Rights Act (for foreign criminals) 1998 to stop deportation.
A thoroughly fake, ineffective, and inconsequential politician. All he ever did was drag us into the unjustifiable Iraq War.


John Major was a weak leader who couldn't get control of his party, and it really showed when he went up against Tony Blair. In 1992, he suffered a loss of majority but still won the election. Then in 1997, after a vote of no confidence, he was defeated by Tony Blair in spectacular fashion.
Anyone fancy a bit of (Edwina) Curry tonight? Spitting Image had him down to tea. A grey-faced boring man.

He's completely worthless and not worth the dirt at the bottom of our shoes. Just listen to him talk, "We are here together to help the cost of living crisis." Rishi Sunak was partly to blame for the cost of living crisis, an utter tool and puppet who is completely incapable, redundant, and incompetent.
Puts immigrants in concentration camp boats, bans protests, supports Israeli genocide of Palestinians, caused the 2008 financial crash.
Rishi Sunak is completely useless, corrupt, and the biggest bigot the UK has ever seen. It's all about profit for his family.

Quintessential '50s/'60s lefty panderer. Did most of his damage in the '70s.


I like the difference in the perception of similar events by the leaders of "bad" and "good" countries. Famine in the USSR in 1933: the whole world screams about the atrocities of bloody Stalin. Famine in Bengal in 1943: "Hands off Churchill, he is our greatest leader!" This is called propaganda and double standards.
I am from India and I personally hate this guy for killing 3 to 4 million people from famine. The worst thing, however, is the way Brits treat him like a god. Winston Churchill is the stupidest, most hypocritical racist that I have ever seen.
