Prime Minister of the United Kingdom retirement from the Commons, which elevates the individual to the House of Lords. Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom, with Churchill offered a dukedom. From the 1960s onward, life peerages were preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher accepted life peerages, although Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home. Edward Heath did not accept a peerage of any kind and nor have any of the Prime Ministers to retire since 1990; although Heath and Major were later appointed as Knights
Prime Minister parodies (Private Eye) School, renamed "St. Theresa's Independent State Grammar School for Girls (and Boys)". After the 2017 general election and the Conservative–DUP agreement it added "Incorporating the William III Orange Academy" to its title. The school's crest featured a pair of leopard-print kitten heel women's shoes, parodying a favourite style of Theresa May. In 2017 one of these shoes was replaced by an orange. The Private Eye recordings issued by the magazine from time-to-time, especially in its first fifteen years, featured comedic impersonations and lampoons of the following Prime Ministers: • Harold Macmillan • Sir Alec Douglas-Home • Harold Wilson • Edward