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Attlee, Clement Richard
Becket, Margaret
Beckett, Margaret
Beith, Alan James
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Major, John Roy
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Simon
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Smith, John
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Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
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1834
Russell
London Appointed Leader of the Whigs in the House of Commons
1846
Stanley, Edward
London Appointed Party leader of the Conservative Party
1850
Hamilton-Gordon, George
London Appointed Leader of the free trade Peelites on the death of Peel
1867
Gladstone, William Ewart
London Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1874
Cavendish, Spencer
London Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1880
Cavendish, Spencer
London Declines an offer to become Prime Minister
1881
Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot
Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1899
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry
19th June London Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
19th June London Regarded as a temporary leader until the return of Lord Rosebery
1903
Snowden, Philip
Appointed Party Leader of the Independent Labour Party
1905
Lloyd George, David
Serves under Campbell-Bannerman
1906
MacDonald, James Ramsey
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party, 1st term
1908
Attlee, Clement Richard
Appointed Party Leader of the Independent Labour Party
1910
Carson, Edward
21st Feb Appointed Party Leader of the Ulster Unionists
1911
Law, Andrew Bonar
London Appointed Party Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1911
MacDonald, James Ramsey
6th Feb London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party, 2nd term
1914
Henderson, Arthur
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1917
Snowden, Philip
Appointed Party Leader of the Independent Labour Party
1921
Chamberlain, Austen
London Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1922
MacDonald, James Ramsey
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party, 2nd term
1922
Snowden, Philip
Appointed Party Leader of the Independent Labour Party
1924
Clynes, John Robert
When MacDonald became Prime Minister he made Clynes the party's leader in the Commons
1926
Lloyd George, David
London Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1930
Simon
London Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1931
Henderson, Arthur
26th Aug London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1931
Simon
7th June London Appointed Home Secretary
1932
Lansbury, George
Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1935
Attlee, Clement Richard
London Appointed leader of the opposition
1935
Greenwood, Arthur
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1945
Attlee, Clement Richard
Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1955
Eden, Robert Anthony
Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1955
Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor
14th Dec Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1955
Griffiths, James
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1956
Grimmond, Jo
Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1957
MacMillan, Maurice Harold
London Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1962
Brown, George
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party & also becomes Deputy Prime Minister
1963
Douglas-Home, Alexander Frederick
London Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1963
Wilson, James Harold
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1965
Heath, Edward Richard George
22nd July Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1967
Thorpe, Jeremy
18th Jan Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1970
Jenkins, Roy
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1975
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda
11th Feb London Appointed Leader of the Conservative Party
1976
Callaghan, James
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1976
Foot, Michael
21st Oct Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1976
Steel, David
Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party
1979
Hume, John
Appointed Party Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
1980
Foot, Michael
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1981
Healey, Denis
27th Sep Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1981
Jenkins, Roy
Appointed Party Leader of the Social Democratic Party
1983
Kinnock, Neil
2nd Oct London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1983
Owen, David
Appointed Party Leader of the SDP
1987
Maclennan, Robert
Appointed Party Leader of the SDP
1988
Jenkins, Roy
London Appointed Leader of the Social & Liberal Democrat Peers in the Lords
1989
Heppell, John
21st July Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1990
Major, John Roy
London Appointed Leader of the Conservative Party
27th Nov London Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
1992
Becket, Margaret
18th July Appointed Deputy Party Leader of the Labour Party
1992
Beckett, Margaret
18th July Appointed Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
1992
Beith, Alan James
Appointed Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
1992
Smith, Arthur
London Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1992
Smith, John
18th July Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1994
Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton
21st July Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party
1997
Hague, William
19th June Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
2003
Howard, Michael
6th Nov Appointed Party Leader of the Conservative Party
2006
Brown, Gordon
Sep A pressured Blair admitted the forthcoming Labour conference would be his last as leader

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