A Quickie

[chancer]

Who was the last english prime minister not to have a wife?

[bigcumba]

maggie thatcher

[chancer]

you're on the ball

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first 12 years of my adult working life were when she was in power.... I still have nightmares!

[Ada]

maggie thatcher

:laugh:laugh

I'm only guessing here, but surely, Maggie aside, it's got to be Edward Heath hasn't it?

Wasn't he a bachelor all his life, & allegedly preferred sailing against the wind?

[bigcumba]

Yeah, Ted was definitely not married, so he was the next one before Maggie.... I could be pedantic and try to qualify the question more as Chancer said 'English' rather than 'British' PM, but given the term Prime Minister wasn't used seriously until Robert Walpole had that role in the early 18th century, and that was well after the union of the Scots and English, I can't see any other answers other than Maggie and Ted.