<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Walpole">Robert Walpole</a> becomes, in effect, the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Great_Britain" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Great Britain">Prime Minister of Great Britain</a>, though he himself denied that title.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_3#cite_note-5" id="mwMQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMg">[5]</span></a></sup>
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