The 10 Most Controversial Prime Ministers

Downing Street has been home to many polarising figures over the years! For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the 10 Most Controversial Prime Ministers, featuring Liz Truss, Tony Blair, Anthony Eden, and many more contentious figures. Let us know in the comments who your least favourite PM is.

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[WatchMojoUK]

Think our new Prime Minister will appear on this list some day?

[shehannanayakkara]

Seems like a bit of recency bias, UK has 300 years of prime ministers to choose from. For example, Lord North who lost the colonies, Liverpool who was PM during the Peterloo massacre, Robert Peel who split the Tories because of his free trade leanings, John Russell who was PM during the Irish potato famine, Gladstone who proposed Irish home rule.

[jonscreen]

this list might be the only positive thing Truss inspired

[basstrom]

Thatcher did not privatise the railways that was John Major

[MrTheGadfly]

"The 10 Most Controversial Prime Ministers That We Can List by Talking to my Granddad Rather than Doing any Historical Research or Even Look at Wikipedia" .... fixed it for ya
Pretty sure that there have been PMs for longer than a century in the UK...

[DBIVUK]

Some poor research here. Thatcher did not privatise the railways - it was the Major government from 1992. The incoming Blair government didn't pledge to renationalise, but in practice ended up renationalising most of it (Railtrack coming back as Network Rail in 2002).

[gergelyzoltan]

Liz Truss was PM for such an embarassingly short period, that she hardly had any time to be controversial. Thats how insignificant she was. Being controversial usually involves daring, more substance, more intelligence, courage.

[JRTerrier]

In 1977, Wilson had left office for the second time, so he WASN’T PM then…

[Terry.W]

Don't forget although the Conservatives created the Beeching Report on the railways ...it was Labour under Harold Wilson that carried out the cuts by the Transport Minister Barbara Castle ...a plan at the Labour conference she said she would not implement ...but did it anyway breaking a conference pledge..

[syria]

The fact that "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" charted when Margaret Thatcher passed is wild 💀

[thomashattey]

Yes, Major privatised the railway, but he was basically Thatcher "lite."

[Beckford]

You forgot to mention the campaign to get the Wizard of Oz song "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" to #1 on the UK charts for Thatcher's funeral, it made it to #2, though that was probably because the BBC manipulated the chart to stop it being #1 (they've done this before).

[kernowpictures]

Gordon’s only surviving sibling is the flying Scotsman

[heatherr]

I'm American, and even I knew The Iron Lady was going to be number one

[sebastian]

Home wasn't put in by the monarch, but by Macmillan, on whose advice the queen acted and had to act- Do read a book once in a while

[GospodinNelson]

The thing with Liz Truss is that she came during crisis and inflation. Her plan would have worked if she came before 2020 and all the mess. Would have still been controversial tho.

[maxmetodiev]

I really thought that Winston Churchill would be here

[malsimons]

Come on guys. Including Tony Blair in this list. You can criticise him for Iraq etc. but what you said about him acting against Parliament’s wishes is completely untrue and possibly defamatory.

[saif_roblox]

My least favourite pm is obviously Liz Truss. I will never forgive her for throwing the economy in the trash can.

[AtheistOrphan]

Thank goodness the clips didn’t feature any original audio. Thatcher’s voice really does my head in.