Leader of the Opposition

Kemi Badenoch 2024–present

Rishi Sunak 2024 Keir Starmer 2020–2024 Jeremy Corbyn 2015–2020 Harriet Harman 2015 Ed Miliband 2010–2015 Harriet Harman 2010 David Cameron 2005–2010 Michael Howard 2003–2005 Iain Duncan Smith 2001–2003 William Hague 1997–2001 John Major 1997 Tony Blair 1994–1997 Margaret Beckett 1994 John Smith 1992–1994 Neil Kinnock 1983–1992 Michael Foot 1980–1983 James Callaghan 1979–1980 Margaret Thatcher 1975–1979 Edward Heath 1974–1975 Harold Wilson 1970–1974 Edward Heath 1965–1970 Alec Douglas-Home 1964–1965 Harold Wilson 1963–1964 George Brown 1963 Hugh Gaitskell 1955–1963 Herbert Morrison 1955 Clement Attlee 1951–1955 Winston Churchill 1945–1951 Clement Attlee 1945 Hastings Lees-Smith 1940–1941 Clement Attlee 1935–1940 George Lansbury 1932–1935 Arthur Henderson 1931–1932 Stanley Baldwin 1929–1931 Ramsay MacDonald 1924–1929 Stanley Baldwin 1924 Ramsay MacDonald 1922–1924 H. H. Asquith 1920–1922 Donald Maclean 1918–1920 H. H. Asquith 1916–1918 Edward Carson 1915–1916 Andrew Bonar Law 1911–1915 Arthur Balfour 1906–1911 Joseph Chamberlain 1906 Arthur Balfour 1905–1906 Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899–1905 William Harcourt 1896–1898 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1895–1896 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1892–1895 Arthur Balfour 1892–1895 William Ewart Gladstone 1886–1892 Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn 1886 William Ewart Gladstone 1885–1886 Benjamin Disraeli 1880–1881 Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 1880–1885 Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire 1875–1880 William Ewart Gladstone 1874–1875 Benjamin Disraeli 1868–1874 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1866–1868 William Ewart Gladstone 1866–1868 Benjamin Disraeli 1859–1866 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 1858–1859 Benjamin Disraeli 1852–1858 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1852 Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland 1849–1851 John Charles Herries 1849–1851 Benjamin Disraeli 1849–1852 Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland 1848 William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne 1841–1842 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1841–1846 Robert Peel 1835–1841 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1834–1835 Robert Peel 1830–1834 John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer 1830 Robert Peel 1827–1828 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey 1807