Start Date
End Date
Prime Minister
Party
Annualised Growth
06/04/1955
19/06/1970
18/10/1963
10/01/1957
16/10/1964
04/03/1974
05/04/1976
04/05/1979
28/11/1990
02/05/1997
27/06/2007
11/05/2010
13/07/2016
24/07/2019
07/09/2022
25/10/2022
Present
Anthony Eden
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
Harold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
Conservative
Labour
1.7%
1.9%
0.6%
N/A
0.3%
3.0%
2.1%
2.9%
-1.3%
2.0%
2.4%
3.4%
5.3%
2.8%
0.7%
Average Conservative
Average Labour
Total (1955 - May 2024)
2.3%
1.6%
