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| History |
| Government |
| Party Leaders |
| Conservative |
| Labour |
| Liberal Democrats |
| Social Democratic Party (SDP) |
| Liberal |
| SNP |
| Plaid Cymru |
| Green Party |
| UKIP |
| Other |
| July 2019, to date (Prime Minister throughout) |
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Boris Johnson |
| 2016–19 (Prime Minister throughout) |
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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 throughout; previously (1989–90) Thatcher's last Chancellor of the Exchequer; 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 |
| April 2020, to date |
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Keir Starmer |
| 2015–20 |
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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) Keir Hardie |
| December 2019, to date (MP for Kingston and Surbiton, 1997–2015 and 2017 to date; knighted in 2016 |
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Sir Ed Davey |
| July to December 2019 (144 days) – lost her seat (East Dunbartonshire) to the SDP candidate in the general election |
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Jo Swinson |
| 2017–19 (knighted in David Cameron's Dissolution Honours, 2015) |
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Sir 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; appointed Vice–President, Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook in 2018 |
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Nick Clegg |
| 2006–7: former British 100 metres record holder (1967–74); 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 admitting that he had sought professional help over 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 |
Since 2007, the Leader of the SNP has also been the First Minister of Scotland.
| May 2024 to date |
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John Swinney |
| March 2023 to May 2024 |
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Humza Yousaf |
| 2014–23 |
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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 |
| June 2023 to date
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Rhun ap Iorwerth |
| 2018 to May 2023 |
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Adam Price |
| 2012–18 |
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Leanne Wood |
| 2000–2012 |
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Ieuan Wyn Jones |
| 1991–2000 |
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Dafydd Wigley |
| 2021 to date (joint leaders) |
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Carla Denyer |
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Adrian Ramsay |
| 2018–21 (joint leaders) |
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Jonathan Bartley |
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Siân Berry |
| 2016–18 (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 |
| 2017–18: removed following a vote of no confidence, after it emerged that he had left his wife and embarked on a relationship with a model and party member nearly 30 years his junior, and that she had sent a series of SMS messages containing racist comments about Meghan Markle (then Prince Harry's fiancée) |
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Henry Bolton |
| April 2018 to June 2019: elected unopposed following the removal of the above; barred from standing for re–election in 2019, on the grounds that he'd brought the party into disrepute during his term in office |
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Gerard Batten |
| October 2021 to date |
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Neil Hamilton |
| Co–founder of the Brexit Party (January 2019), along with Nigel Farage, and its first leader; resigned 59 days later, to be succeeded by Farage, after it was disclosed that she'd made anti–Islamic and racist statements online |
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Catherine Blaiklock |
| Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, 2011–19 |
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Ruth Davidson |
| Leader of the DUP, 2015–21: First Minister of Northern Ireland, January 2016 to January 2017; forced out of office after Martin McGuinness and Sinn Féin effectively refused to work with the DUP, as long as she remained in post, until the investigation into the so–called 'Ash for Cash' scandal was completed |
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Arlene Foster |
| 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; previously, as Chairman of one of the UK's largest food processing businesses – Cavenham Foods, set up by him in 1965 – he was knighted in Harold Wilson's resignation honours (1976 – the so–called 'Lavender List') |
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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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