Member of Parliament
Several holders at a time · 304 terms · 1781–present
Current holders 14
Andy Burnham
2026–present
Kemi Badenoch
2017–present
James Cleverly
2015–present
Rishi Sunak
2015–present
Suella Braverman
2015–present
Shabana Mahmood
2010–present
Rachel Reeves
2010–present
Priti Patel
2010–present
Ed Miliband
2005–present
Jeremy Hunt
2005–present
John Healey
1997–present
Yvette Cooper
1997–present
Iain Duncan Smith
1992–present
Jeremy Corbyn
1983–present
Previous holders 290
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
Henry Addington
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
Banastre Tarleton
Alexander Cochrane
Sidney Smith
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Boris Johnson
2015–2023
Keir Starmer
2015–2026
Amber Rudd
2010–2019
Kwasi Kwarteng
2010–2024
Sajid Javid
2010–2024
Liz Truss
2010–2024
Nadhim Zahawi
2010–2024
Grant Shapps
2005–2024
George Osborne
2001–2017
David Cameron
2001–2016
Ian Liddell-Grainger
2001–2024
Boris Johnson
2001–2008
Andy Burnham
2001–2017
Alan Johnson
1997–2017
Charles Clarke
1997–2010
Theresa May
1997–2024
Philip Hammond
1997–2019
Jacqui Smith
1997–2010
Gerry Adams
1997–2011
William Hague
1989–2015
David Blunkett
1987–2015
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan
1987–2010
Alistair Darling
1987–2015
Tony Blair
1983–2007
Michael Howard
1983–2010
Gerry Adams
1983–1992
Gordon Brown
1983–2015
Margaret Beckett
1983–2024
Harriet Harman
1982–2024
Roy Jenkins
1982–1987
John Major
1979–2001
Jack Straw
1979–2015
David Waddington
1979–1990
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
1978–1999
Margaret Beckett
1974–1979
Douglas Hurd
1974–1997
Leon Brittan
1974–1988
Nigel Lawson
1974–1992
Norman Lamont
1972–1997
Kenneth Clarke
1970–2019
Geoffrey Howe
1970–1992
John Smith
1970–1994
Neil Kinnock
1970–1995
David Waddington
1968–1974
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
1968–1997
David Steel
1965–1997
Geoffrey Howe
1964–1966
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone
1963–1970
Alec Douglas-Home
1963–1974
Merlyn Rees
1963–1992
Michael Foot
1960–1992
Margaret Thatcher
1959–1992
Jeremy Thorpe
1959–1979
Frank Soskice
1956–1966
Denis Healey
1952–1992
Anthony Barber
1951–1974
Gwilym Lloyd George
1951–1957
Reginald Maudling
1950–1979
Christopher Soames
1950–1966
Jo Grimond
1950–1983
Robert Carr
1950–1976
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor
1950–1966
Iain Macleod
1950–1970
Duncan Sandys
1950–1974
Clement Attlee
1950–1955
Edward Heath
1950–2001
Alec Douglas-Home
1950–1951
Roy Jenkins
1948–1977
Hugh Gaitskell
1945–1963
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
1945–1960
Harold Wilson
1945–1983
James Callaghan
1945–1987
Frank Soskice
1945–1955
George Brown
1945–1970
Michael Foot
1945–1955
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle
1944–1945
Ernest Bevin
1940–1951
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor
1938–1945
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone
1938–1950
Peter Thorneycroft
1938–1966
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
1938–1950
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
1937–1942
Jim Griffiths
1936–1970
Ramsay MacDonald
1936–1937
J. R. Clynes
1935–1945
Manny Shinwell
1935–1970
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
1935–1950
Herbert Morrison
1935–1959
James Chuter Ede
1935–1964
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
1935–1954
Duncan Sandys
1935–1945
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
1934–1943
Arthur Henderson
1933–1935
Harold Macmillan
1931–1964
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
1931–1956
Alec Douglas-Home
1931–1945
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow
1931–1945
Duff Cooper
1931–1945
Stafford Cripps
1931–1950
Brendan Bracken
1929–1952
James Chuter Ede
1929–1931
Gwilym Lloyd George
1929–1950
Neville Chamberlain
1929–1940
Herbert Morrison
1929–1931
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
1929–1935
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
1929–1959
Rab Butler
1929–1965
Clement Davies
1929–1962
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
1928–1931
Manny Shinwell
1928–1931
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland
1924–1928
Duff Cooper
1924–1929
Winston Churchill
1924–1964
Harold Macmillan
1924–1929
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
1923–1924
Herbert Morrison
1923–1924
Leslie Hore-Belisha
1923–1945
Anthony Eden
1923–1957
James Chuter Ede
1923
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
1922–1931
Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
1922–1929
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall
1922–1946
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
1922–1928
Manny Shinwell
1922–1924
George Lansbury
1922–1940
Ramsay MacDonald
1922–1935
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
1922–1940
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
1922–1945
Clement Attlee
1922–1950
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
1922–1931
Gwilym Lloyd George
1922–1924
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet
1922
Charles Townshend
1920–1922
H. H. Asquith
1920–1924
Neville Chamberlain
1918–1929
John J. O'Kelly
1918–1922
Kingsley Wood
1918–1943
Brian O'Higgins
1918–1922
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan
1918–1937
Seán T. O'Kelly
1918–1922
Arthur Griffith
1918–1922
W. T. Cosgrave
1917–1922
Eric Geddes
1917–1922
Éamon de Valera
1917–1922
Aylmer Hunter-Weston
1916–1935
George Reid
1916–1918
Leo Amery
1911–1945
Andrew Bonar Law
1911–1923
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
1911–1929
William Adamson
1910–1931
George Lansbury
1910–1912
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
1910–1925
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
1910–1944
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet
1910–1940
Edward Shortt
1910–1922
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven
1910–1925
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
1910–1918
Laming Worthington-Evans
1910–1931
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
1908–1910
Stanley Baldwin
1908–1937
Andrew Bonar Law
1906–1910
J. R. Clynes
1906–1931
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman
1906–1929
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate
1906–1927
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
1906–1918
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
1906–1918
George Barnes
1906–1922
Ramsay MacDonald
1906–1918
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
1906–1918
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
1904–1913
Arthur Henderson
1903–1931
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
1902–1918
Andrew Bonar Law
1900–1906
Winston Churchill
1900–1922
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
1900–1910
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
1900–1918
Keir Hardie
1900–1915
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
1900–1922
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
1899–1910
Reginald McKenna
1895–1918
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1895–1900
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee
1895–1905
Keir Hardie
1892–1895
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
1892–1919
Edward Carson
1892–1921
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
1892–1906
John Sweetman
1892–1895
Austen Chamberlain
1892–1937
David Lloyd George
1890–1945
George Curzon
1886–1898
H. H. Asquith
1886–1918
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
1886–1895
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
1885–1895
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
1885–1911
Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar
1884–1914
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth
1880–1894
Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote
1880–1899
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
1880–1921
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston
1880–1911
Joseph Chamberlain
1876–1914
Arthur Balfour
1874–1922
Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee
1874–1892
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
1874–1879
Lord George Hamilton
1868–1906
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1868–1908
Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
1868–1874
William Harcourt
1868–1904
Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley
1868–1900
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
1868–1886
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1868–1878
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
1865–1886
Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn
1864–1906
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
1863–1900
Hugh Childers
1860–1892
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
1858–1885
George Ward Hunt
1857–1877
R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
1857–1862
Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook
1857–1866
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars
1856–1859
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
1856–1878
Charles Napier
1855–1860
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
1855–1857
George Cornewall Lewis
1855–1863
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
1853–1868
Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare
1852–1873
Robert Lowe
1852–1880
George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
1852–1859
George Cornewall Lewis
1847–1852
William Ewart Gladstone
1847–1895
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
1847–1868
John Charles Herries
1847–1853
Spencer Horatio Walpole
1846–1882
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
1841–1847
Charles Napier
1841–1847
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
1841–1842
Benjamin Disraeli
1837–1876
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt
1835–1865
William Ewart Gladstone
1832–1845
Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
1832–1874
T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt
1829–1832
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
1826–1861
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
1826–1829
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook
1826–1865
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
1826–1866
Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton
1826–1859
Henry Lowry-Corry
1825–1873
John Charles Herries
1823–1841
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1822–1844
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
1822–1830
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
1820–1839
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
1818–1820
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet
1818–1821
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
1818–1832
FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
1818–1820
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1818–1861
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1816–1828
William Sturges Bourne
1815–1831
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
1814–1827
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
1813–1817
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
1810–1834
Robert Peel
1809–1850
Henry Goulburn
1808–1856
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
1807–1865
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
1806–1827
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1806–1812
John Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough
1805–1806
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
1804–1834
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
1802–1812
William Sturges Bourne
1801–1812
Charles Philip Yorke
1801–1818
George Canning
1801–1827
Richard Ryder
1801–1830
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
1801–1802
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
1801–1821
William Wilberforce
1801–1825
Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
1801–1823
Spencer Perceval
1796–1812
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
1786–1807
William Pitt the Younger
1781–1806
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