Prime Minister of the United Kingdom century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the Ministers of the Crown Act. British Prime Ministers have never been elected directly by the public. A Prime Minister need not be a party leader; David Lloyd George was not a party leader during his service as prime Minister during World War I, and neither was Ramsay MacDonald from 1931 to 1935. Prime Ministers have taken office because they were members of either the Commons or Lords, and either inherited a majority in the Commons or won more
Prime Minister of Nepal Master of the Royal Orders of Nepal. "Mukhtiyar" Bhimsen Thapa was the first person to be referred to as Prime Minister by the British. Similarly, Historian Chittaranjan Nepali writes that the first institution to hold all state powers was the position of "Mukhtiyar" which was established after the King Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from Varanasi. He further writes that the position was later converted into the Prime Ministership and thus the view expressed by some historians that the post of Prime Minister and the modern system of administration originated in Nepal with the emergence of Damodar Pande does