Blue or Red that is the Key Question Quiz

Answer: Labour

Ramsay MacDonald was born on 12 October 1866 in Lossiemouth, Scotland, UK, and died on 9 November 1937.

MacDonald joined the newly formed Independent Labour Party in 1894, which later in 1906 would become the British Labour Party. MacDonald was appointed "Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party," the party's leader, in 1911.

Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister, first in 1924 for a short spell, and 1929-1931. He then headed a coalition government from 1931 until 1935.

Answer: Labour

Harold Wilson was the Prime Minister twice, between 1964-1970 and 1974-1976. Wilson was born on 11 March 1916 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK, and died on 24 May 1995.

Wilson, who was 31 at the time, became Britain's youngest cabinet minister since William Pitt the Younger in 1782 when Prime Minister Clement Attlee appointed him president of the Board of Trade in 1947. From 1945 until his retirement in 1983, he served as Huyton's MP in parliament.

Harold Wilson was well known for smoking a pipe and for wearing a Gannex coat. Gannex is a waterproof fabric composed of an outer layer of nylon and an inner layer of wool with air between them. The company is no longer in business.

Answer: Labour

Clement Attlee was born on 3rd January 1883 in Putney, London, England, and died on 8th October 1967. Atlee was the Prime Minister between 1945 and 1951. In 1922, Atlee was elected to Parliament as the MP for Limehouse. Attlee was the leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

He also has the distinction of being the longest-serving Labour leader. In the second World War, Attlee was Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill.

Answer: Labour

Tony Blair was born on May 6, 1953, in Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1997 until 2007, Blair served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Sedgefield's Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2007 and led the Labour Party for 13 years.
Tony Blair's Labour Party won the 1997 general election, making him the youngest prime minister of the 20th century.

Answer: Labour

James Callaghan was born on 27 March 1912, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, and passed away on 26 March 2005. James was the PM between 1976 and 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, and Foreign Secretary. James was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1987.

James was the MP for Cardiff South East, later to be called Cardiff South and Penarth. He had a nickname of 'Sunny Jim' or 'Big Jim'. James resigned as leader of the Labour Party in 1980 after a motion of no confidence was called, and the motion was passed.

Answer: Labour

Gordon Brown was born on 20 February 1951 in Giffnock, Scotland. He was the PM between 27 June 2007 and 11 May 2010. In 1997, when Labour won the general election and Tony Blair was the PM, Blair appointed Gordon Brown as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which he served from 1997 to 2007.

Brown was an MP for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005, and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005 to 2015.

Answer: Conservative

Liz Truss was born in Oxford, England, on 26 July 1975. In the 2010 general election, Truss won the seat to represent Southwest Norfolk. In the parliament, Liz held several positions in government, including Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education, among others.

Liz served as Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. She became the shortest-serving prime minister, only serving as PM for 45 days, although she stayed on as caretaker PM until the new PM was chosen. On 25 October, Rishi Sunak became the new PM.

Answer: Conservative

David Cameron was born on 9 October 1966. David served as PM from 2010 to 2016 and was the Leader of the Conservative Party from 5 to 2016. He represented the constituency of Witney from 2001 to 2016.

David Cameron was Britain's youngest prime minister since 1812, beating Tony Blair from the Labour Party, who was only two days away from his 44th birthday. One of David's achievements was the reform of same-sex marriage, which now seems to be widely accepted. In 2016, David lost the referendum on whether we left or stayed in the EU. The term for the stay-or-leave campaign was "Brexit.".

Answer: Conservative

Alec Douglas-Home was born on 2 July 1903 in Mayfair, London, and passed away on 9 October 1995. Alec Douglas-Home was the PM from 18 October 1963 until 16 October 1964.

Sir Alec held several positions in the Conservative government, including Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations, and First Lord of the Treasury.

Before Tony Blair was elected prime minister in 1997, he was the last prime minister from Britain to have attended a private school, having attended Eton College.

Answer: Conservative

Anthony Eden was born on 12 June 1897 in Rushyford, County Durham, England, and died on 14 January 1977. Eden was the PM between 6 April 1955 and 9 January 1957. Eden was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 26 October 1951 and 6 April 1955 under Winston Churchill. Anthony Eden served as the MP for Warwick and Leamington between 1923 and 1957.

Eden held the positions of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Leader of the House of Commons, and Secretary of State for War, among others.

Answer: Conservative

Edward Heath was born on 9 July 1916 and died on 17 July 2005. Most people will know him as Ted Heath. Ted was the PM between 19 June 1970 and 4 March 1974. Ted was also the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath represented Bexley between 1950 and 1974, Sidcup between 1974 and 1983, Old Bexley and Sidcup between 1983 and 1997, and Old Bexley and Sidcup between 1997 and 2010. He also served as Minister of State (Ministry of Labour), President of the Board of Trade, and Lord Commissioner (HM Treasury) (Whip), and several other posts.

He spent 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics, Ted Heath was a keen yachtsman and owned the yacht called Morning Cloud. In total, Heath owned five yachts, all called Morning Cloud.

Answer: Conservative

Stanley Baldwin was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, on 3 August 1867 and died on 14 December 1947. Baldwin has the distinction of being prime minister on three occasions: from May 1923 to January 1924, from November 1924 to June 1929, and from June 1935 to May 1937. He represented Bewdley as a Conservative MP from 1908 to 1937. Other positions he held in government were Chancellor of the Exchequer (1922), Financial Secretary of the Treasury from 1917 to 1921, and Parliamentary Private Secretary 1916.

Fun fact Stanley Baldwin was the cousin of the author and journalist Rudyard Kipling. Another fact is that Stanley Baldwin is the only PM in British history to be the PM under three different monarchs, King George V, King Edward VIII, and King George VI.