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| 2016– (Prime Minister 2016–) |
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Theresa May | |
| 2005–16 (Prime Minister 2010–16) |
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David Cameron | |
| 2003–5: stood down six months after losing the 2005 general election |
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Michael Howard | |
| 2001–3: self–styled "quiet man" (others detected a lack of charisma) |
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Iain Duncan Smith | |
| 1997–2001: at 36, the youngest ever leader of the Conservative party |
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William Hague |
| 1990–7 (Prime Minister 1990–7; introduced the TESSA in his only budget speech, 1990, as a low–risk alternative to the PEP) |
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John Major | |
| 1975–90 (Prime Minister 1979–90) |
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Margaret Thatcher | |
| 1965–75 (Prime Minister 1970–4; Father of the House of Commons 1992–2001) |
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Edward Heath | |
| 1963–4 (Prime Minister 1963–4) |
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Alec Douglas–Home | |
| 1957–63 (Prime Minister 1957–63) |
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Harold Macmillan | |
| 1955–7 (Prime Minister 1955–7) |
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Anthony Eden | |
| 1940–55 (Prime Minister 1940–5 and 1951–5) |
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Winston Churchill | |
| 1937–40 (Prime Minister 1937–40) |
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Neville Chamberlain | |
| 1923–37 (Prime Minister May 1923 – Jan 24, 1924–9, June 35 – May 37) |
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Stanley Baldwin | |
| 1911–23 (Prime Minister Nov 1922 – May 1923 – resigned when diagnosed with cancer) |
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Andrew Bonar Law | |
| 1902–11 (Prime Minister 1902–5) |
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Arthur Balfour | |
| 2015- |
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Jeremy Corbyn |
| 2010–15 |
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Ed Miliband |
| 2007–10 (Prime Minister throughout his leadership) |
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Gordon Brown |
| 1994–2007 (Prime Minister 1997–2007) |
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Tony Blair |
| 12 May to 21 July 1994 (following the death of John Smith and pending the election of a successor) |
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Margaret Beckett |
| 1992–4 (died suddenly in 1994 of a heart attack, aged 55) |
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John Smith |
| 1983–92 |
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Neil Kinnock |
| 1980–3: controversially appeared at a Remembrance service at the Cenotaph wearing what was described in some media outlets as a duffel coat or a donkey jacket |
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Michael Foot |
| 1976–80 (Prime Minister 1976–9; the only person ever to hold the 4 great offices of state; moved from Chancellor of the Exchequer to Home Secretary after devaluation in 1967) |
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James Callaghan |
| 1963–76 (Prime Minister 1963–70 and 1974–6) |
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Harold Wilson |
| 1955–63 (died suddenly 18 January 1963) |
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Hugh Gaitskell |
| 1935–55 (Prime Minister 1945–51; Labour’s longest serving party leader) |
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Clement Atlee |
| 1932–5 |
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George Lansbury |
| 1921–2 |
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John Robert Clynes |
| 1911–14, 1922–31 (Prime Minister Jan – Nov 1924, 1929–35) |
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Ramsay Macdonald |
| 1910–11 |
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George Nicoll Barnes |
| 1908–10, 1914–17 and 1931–32 |
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Arthur Henderson |
| 1906–8: the first Labour MP (1892); founder and first leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party |
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(James) Kier Hardie |
| 2017– |
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Vince Cable |
| 2015–17: resigned after the 2017 General Election, when the Lib Dems increased their number of Westminster seats from 9 to 12, saying he was "torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader" |
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Tim Farron |
| 2007–15: Deputy Prime Minister 2010-15; resigned as Lib Dem leader after the 2015 general election, in which they lost 49 of their 57 seats |
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Nick Clegg |
| 2006–7: resigned in the run-up to the 2007 general election amid allegations of ageism – he was 66 |
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Sir Menzies Campbell |
| 1999–2006: resigned after ITN said it intended to report that he had been treated for a drinking problem; died in 2015, aged 55 |
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Charles Kennedy |
| 1988–99 |
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Paddy Ashdown |
| March–July 1988 (Social and Liberal Democrats) |
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David Steel |
| 1987–8 (in post at the time of its merger with the Liberals) |
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Robert Maclennan |
| 1983–7 (stood down in protest against the proposed merger with the Liberals) |
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David Owen |
| July 1982 to June 1983 (took over from the joint leadership of the "Gang of Four") |
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Roy Jenkins |
| 1976–88 (introduced the Private Member’s Bill that led to the Abortion Act, 1967; continued as first leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats) |
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David Steel |
| 1967–76: died 2014 aged 85 |
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Jeremy Thorpe |
| 1956–67, May–July 1976 |
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Jo Grimond |
| 1945–56 |
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Clement Davies |
| 1935–45 |
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Sir Archibald Sinclair |
| 1931–35 |
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Sir Herbert Samuel |
| 1926–31 (Prime Minister of the Coalition government, 1916–22; last Liberal to be Prime Minister) |
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David Lloyd George |
| 1908–26 (Prime Minister 1908–16; last Prime Minister of a Liberal government) |
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H. H. Asquith |
| 1899–1908 (Prime Minister 1905–8) |
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Sir Henry Campbell–Bannerman |
Note: at this time there was no definitive leader of the Liberal party; they had leaders in both the Commons and the Lords. Only those who served as Prime Minister are named here.
| 1894–6 (Prime Minister 1894–5) |
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The Earl of Rosebery |
| 1865–75, 1880–94 (Prime Minister 1868–74, 1880–5, Feb–July 1886, 1892–4) |
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W. E. Gladstone |
| 1859–65 (Prime Minister 1859–65) |
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Lord Palmerston |
| 2014– |
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Nicola Sturgeon |
| 1990–2000 and 2004–2014 |
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Alex Salmond |
| 2000–2004 |
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John Swinney |
| 2012– |
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Leanne Wood |
| 2000–2012 |
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Ieuan Wyn Jones |
| 1991–2000 |
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Dafydd Wigley |
| 2016– (joint leaders) |
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Jonathan Bartley |
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Caroline Lucas | |
| 2012–16 |
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Natalie Bennett |
| 2008–12 |
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Caroline Lucas |
| 2006–9, 2010–16, and acting leader later in 2016 after Diane James resigned before her status as leader was formalised |
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Nigel Farage |
| Elected in 2016 to succeed Farage (or James); resigned after the party failed to win any seats at Westminster in the 2017 General Election |
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Paul Nuttall |
| Chairman of the British National Party (BNP), 1999–2014 |
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Nick Griffin |
| Founder of the Referendum Party, 1997; died two months after losing his deposit in the General Election of that year |
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Sir James Goldsmith |
| Succeeded Gerry Adams as Leader of Sinn Fein, in February 2018 |
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Mary Lou McDonald |
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