List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom saw 31x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 37 edits to this article on 2026-06-22, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Prime ministers
• Since 1721

What changed that day

The article grew by 38 characters that day. The largest single addition was 966 characters to Prime ministers. See everything that changed on 2026-06-22 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.