Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Bonar Law's Parliamentary Private Secretary, J.C.C. Davidson acted in effect as his Chief of Staff. Margaret Thatcher's downfall from the Conservative Party leadership in 1990 is attributed by many to the actions of her Parliamentary Private Secretary, Peter Morrison, in failing accurately to count votes amongst Conservative backbenchers. Some Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister go on to hold higher office; Lord Dunglass served as Parliamentary Private Secretary under Neville Chamberlain and later went on to serve as Prime Minister in his own right. There can be multiple Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister at a given time.
Deputy Prime Minister (Denmark) Deputy Prime Minister (Denmark) Deputy Prime Minister (Danish: "vicestatsminister") is an informal description sometimes used, especially by the press, for the minister who is second in the order of precedence. This is the minister who will usually be appointed as acting prime minister when the prime minister is unavailable. Traditionally the minister of foreign affairs holds the second rank. It is only when the order of precedence deviates from this tradition, that number two is referred to as "vicestatsminister". This happens in the unusual case when the leader of the second largest coalition party is not minister of foreign affairs.