Who is the only British Prime Minister whose mother tongue was not English?
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
The Mother Tongue of several urban myths. This book has also been published in Great Britain by Penguin Books under the title Mother Tongue: The English Language (). Bryson has since followed up this work with "Made in America". The Mother Tongue The Mother Tongue () is a book by Bill Bryson which compiles the history and origins of the English and the language's various quirks. It is subtitled "English And How It Got That Way". The book discusses the Indo-European origins of English, the growing status of English as a global language, the complex etymology of English words, the dialects of English,