Prime Minister of New Zealand ministerial power; in 1912 Thomas Mackenzie was the last prime minister to lose power through an unsuccessful confidence motion in the House of Representatives. One change brought about by the First World War was direct participation in governing the British Empire. Previously, New Zealand prime ministers had attended occasional colonial and imperial conferences, but they otherwise communicated with London through the governor (a position then appointed by the British government). In 1917, however, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George offered the New Zealand prime minister a seat in the Imperial War Cabinet, the British Empire's wartime coordinating body. In 1919,
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.