Deputy Prime Minister

Name 	From 	Until 	Party 	Notes
Clement Attlee 	19 February 1942	23 May 1945 	Labour 	also Dominions Secretary, 1942-1943; also Lord President of the Council, 1943-1945
Herbert Morrison 	26 July 1945 	26 October 1951	Labour 	also Lord President of the Council, 1945-1951; also Foreign Secretary, 1951
Anthony Eden later Sir Anthony Eden 	26 October 1951 	6 April 1955 	Conservative 	also Foreign Secretary
Richard Austen Butler 	13 July 1962 	18 October 1963	Conservative 	also First Secretary of State
William Whitelaw later The Viscount Whitelaw	4 May 1979 	10 Jauary 1988 	Conservative 	also Home Secretary, 1979-1983; also Lord President of the Council, 1983-1988
Sir Geoffrey Howe 	24 July 1989 	1 November 1990	Conservative 	also Lord President of the Council
Michael Heseltine 	20 July 1995 	2 May 1997 	Conservative 	also First Secretary of State
John Prescott 	2 May 1997 	27 June 2007 	Labour 	also Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001; also First Secretary of State, 2001-2007
Nick Clegg 	11 May 2010 	present 	Liberal Democrats	also Lord President of the Council