Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The political secretary to the prime minister of the United Kingdom is a senior official in the United Kingdom Civil Service who advises the prime minister. Established by Harold Wilson, but continued by subsequent prime ministers, the political secretary was originally not a civil servant, but was later incorporated into the Civil Service.

Political Secretary to the Prime Minister
Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
Prime Minister's Office
Appointer	Prime minister
Formation	1964
First holder	Marcia Williams
Website	10 Downing Street

List of political secretaries to the prime minister of the United Kingdom

Political secretary	Years	Prime Minister
Marcia Williams[1][2]	1964–1970	Harold Wilson
Douglas Hurd[3][4]	1970–1974	Edward Heath
Marcia Williams[5][6]	1974–1976	Harold Wilson
Tom McNally[7][8][9]	1976–1979	James Callaghan
Richard Ryder[10][11][12]	1979–1981	Margaret Thatcher
Derek Howe[13]	1981–1983
Stephen Sherbourne[14][15]	1983–1988
John Whittingdale[16][17]	1988–1990
Judith Chaplin[18]	1990–1992	John Major
Jonathan Hill[19]	1992–1994
Howell James[20][21][22]	1994–1997
Sally Morgan[23][24]	1997–2001	Tony Blair
Robert Hill[25]	2001–2002
Pat McFadden[26][27][28]	2002–2005
John McTernan[29][30]	2005–2007
Joe Irvin[31]	2007–2010	Gordon Brown
Stephen Gilbert[32][33]	2010–2015	David Cameron
Laurence Mann[34]	2015–2016
Stephen Parkinson[35]	2016–2019	Theresa May
Danny Kruger[36][37][38]	2019–2019	Boris Johnson
Benjamin Gascoigne[39][40][41]	2019–2021
Declan Lyons[42]	2021–2022
Sophie Jarvis[43]	2022	Liz Truss
James Forsyth[44]	2022–2024	Rishi Sunak

Timeline

See also

• Politics of the United Kingdom
• Secretary (title)