Standalone/Premiership of Thomas Bricks
| Premiership of Thomas Bricks 31 October 2041 – 24 November 2041 | |
President | Chris Byrne |
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| Cabinet | Bricks ministry |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Seat | 10 Downing Street |
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Thomas Bricks' tenure as Prime Minister of Great Britain began on 31 October 2041 when he accepted an invitation of President Chris Byrne to form a government, succeeding Luke Williams of the Conservative Party, and ended on 24 November upon his resignation. While prime minister, Bricks also served as minister for the civil service as is constitutional convention for prime ministers. His tenure was characterised by controversy and opinion polls have ranked him as one of the worst British prime ministers.
Bricks was appointed prime minister after Labour won the 2041 general election with a narrow two-seat victory. Bricks, hailing from the left-wing of the Labour Party, ran on what has been considered the most left-wing campaign in modern history from a major British political party. His first controversy in office began on 4 November during the State Opening of Parliament with his speech labelled as divisive by the media and criticised by the leaders of the Liberal Democrats and Conservative Party. Just a week later, Foreign Secretary Natalie Smith resigned due to family matters and her replacement, Frank Young, was controversial due to past comments regarding the United States and Russia and was openly criticised by some centrist Labour MPs which Bricks relied on to keep his narrow majority.
On 22 November, the Education and Transport Secretary both resigned after it was leaked to the press that Bricks had made disparaging comments regarding centrist Labour MPs to Culture Secretary Jess Stuart. Their resignation began a government crisis with 49 ministers resigning and both party and parliamentary vote of confidences expected to remove the prime minister. On 24 November, so far having made no official statement on the crisis, Bricks announced his immediate resignation as prime minister, leader of the Labour Party and member of parliament. Deputy Prime Minister Jeffrey MacDonald was appointed prime minister as head of a caretaker cabinet until January while a leadership election would be held. His 24 day tenure made him the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
