In the political situation of the 1796 British general election, William Pitt the Younger,  a prominent British Tory statesman and the youngest prime minister of Great Britain. led a broad wartime coalition of Whig and Tory politicians
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759  23 January 1806) was a prominent British Tory statesman of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest prime minister of Great Britain in 1783 at the age of 24 and the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as of January 1801. The Prime Minister since 1783, William Pitt the Younger, led a broad wartime coalition of Whig and Tory politicians. 
