Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Rt Hon Robert Michael Maitland Stewart 17 October 196819 June 1970
Rt Hon Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home 20 June 19704 March 1974
Rt Hon Leonard James Callaghan 5 March 19745 April 1976
Rt Hon Charles Anthony Raven Crosland 8 April 197619 February 1977
Rt Hon Dr David Anthony Llewellyn Owen 22 February 19774 May 1979
Rt Hon Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Baron Carrington 5 May 19795 April 1982
Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym 6 April 198211 June 1983
Rt Hon Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe 11 June 198324 July 1989
Rt Hon John Roy Major 24 July 198926 October 1989
Rt Hon Douglas Richard Hurd 26 October 19895 July 1995
Rt Hon Malcolm Leslie Rifkind 5 July 19952 May 1997
Rt Hon Robert Finlayson Cook 2 May 19978 June 2001
Rt Hon John Whitaker Straw 8 June 20015 May 2006
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett 5 May 200627 June 2007
Rt Hon David Wright Miliband 28 June 200711 May 2010
Rt Hon William Jefferson Hague 11 May 201014 July 2014
Rt Hon Philip Hammond 15 July 201413 July 2016
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson 13 July 20169 July 2018
Rt Hon Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt 9 July 201824 July 2019
Rt Hon Dominic Rennie Raab 24 July 20192 September 2020