query: office_contested united kingdom general election
supports: The United Kingdom general election , 2001 , was held on Thursday , 7 June 2001 , to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons . It was dubbed `` the quiet landslide '' by the media , as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of five seats , though with significantly lower turnout than before -- 59.4 % , compared to 71.3 % in the previous election . Tony Blair went on to become the first Labour Prime Minister to serve a second consecutive full term in office . There was little change outside Northern Ireland , with 620 out of the 641 seats electing candidates from the same party as they did in 1997 . Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment , as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997 . The Conservative Party , under William Hague 's leadership , was still deeply divided on the issue of Europe and the party 's policy platform was considered to have shifted to a right - wing focus . Hague was also hindered by a series of embarrassing publicity stunts , and resigned as party leader three months later , becoming the first Conservative leader since Austen Chamberlain to leave office without becoming Prime Minister . The election was essentially a repeat of the 1997 election , with Labour losing only 6 seats overall and the Conservatives making a net gain of one seat ( gaining nine seats , but losing eight ) . The Conservatives did manage to gain a seat in Scotland , which ended the party 's status as an ' England - only ' party in the prior parliament . Although they did not gain many seats , one of the new MPs elected was future Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron . The Liberal Democrats gained six seats . Change was seen in Northern Ireland , with the moderately unionist Ulster Unionist Party losing four seats to the more hardline Democratic Unionist Party . This transition was mirrored in the republican community with the moderate SDLP losing votes to the more staunchly republican and abstentionist Sinn Féin . The election was also marked with exceptionally low voter turnout , falling below 60 % for the first time since 1918 . The election was broadcast live on the BBC , and presented by Jeremy Paxman , Andrew Marr , Peter Snow and David Dimbleby . The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The prime minister (informal abbreviation: PM) and Cabinet (consisting of all the most senior ministers, most of whom are government department heads) are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Monarch, to Parliament, to their political party and ultimately to the electorate. The office is one of the Great Offices of State. The , Theresa May, leader of the Conservative Party, was appointed by the Queen on 13 July 2016. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in oil businesses. Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Bush was elected president in 2000 after a close and controversial election against Al Gore, becoming the fourth president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than an opponent. He is the second president to have been a son of a former president, the first having been John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, (born 6 May 1953), commonly called Tony Blair, is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. Together with President George W. Bush in 2003, he initiated the Iraq War with the invasion of Iraq, an act which remains highly controversial.
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answer: prime minister of the united kingdom