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Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

Not to be confused with Opposition House Leader.

The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet responsible for working with the Leader of the House in arranging Commons business and holding the Government to account in its overall management of the House. The Shadow Leader also responds to the Business Statement of Leader of House each Thursday, though the Leader of the Opposition exercised this role until the late 1980s. The office is roughly equivalent to the Shadow Leader of the House of Lords.

Shadow Leader
of the House of Commons
Incumbent
Lucy Powell
since 4 September 2023
AppointerLeader of the Opposition
WebsiteThe Shadow Cabinet

Shadow Leaders edit

NamePortraitTook officeLeft officePolitical partyLeader of the Opposition
Herbert Morrison[1] 1951c. 1955LabourClement Attlee
UnknownLabourHugh Gaitskell
George Brown
Harold Wilson
Selwyn Lloyd 16 October 1964[n 1]4 August 1965[5]ConservativeAlec Douglas-Home
Unknown/Vacant[n 2]4 August 196519 June 1970ConservativeEdward Heath
Fred Peart 19 June 1970[n 3]16 December 1971LabourHarold Wilson
Michael Foot 16 December 1971[7]6 December 1972Labour
Edward Short 6 December 1972[8]4 March 1974Labour
James Prior 4 March 1974[9]29 October 1974ConservativeEdward Heath
John Peyton 29 October 1974[10]19 November 1976Conservative
Margaret Thatcher
Francis Pym 19 November 1976[11]Approx. 20 November 1978[n 4]Conservative
Norman St John-StevasApprox. 20 November 1978[n 4]5 May 1979Conservative
Michael Foot 4 May 1979[15]8 December 1980LabourJames Callaghan
John Silkin 8 December 1980[16]30 October 1983LabourMichael Foot
Peter Shore 30 October 1983[17]13 July 1987LabourNeil Kinnock
Frank Dobson 13 July 1987[18]2 November 1989Labour
John Cunningham 2 November 1989[19]24 July 1992Labour
Margaret Beckett 24 July 1992[20]13 May 1994LabourJohn Smith
Nick Brown
(Acting)		 13 May 1994[21]21 July 1994LabourMargaret Beckett
Margaret Beckett 21 July 199420 October 1994LabourTony Blair
Ann Taylor 20 October 1994[22]2 May 1997Labour
Alastair Goodlad May 1997[23]30 June 1997ConservativeJohn Major
Gillian Shephard 30 June 1997[24]2 June 1998ConservativeWilliam Hague
Sir George Young 1 June 1998[25]22 September 2000[26]Conservative
Angela Browning 26 September 2000 [27]18 September 2001Conservative
Eric Forth18 September 2001[28]10 November 2003ConservativeIain Duncan Smith
Oliver Heald 10 November 2003[29]10 May 2005ConservativeMichael Howard
Chris Grayling 10 May 2005[30]8 December 2005Conservative
Theresa May 8 December 2005[31]19 January 2009ConservativeDavid Cameron
Alan Duncan 19 January 2009[32]7 September 2009[33]Conservative
Sir George Young 8 September 2009[34]11 May 2010Conservative
Rosie Winterton 12 May 20108 October 2010LabourHarriet Harman
Hilary Benn 8 October 20107 October 2011[35]LabourEd Miliband
Angela Eagle 7 October 2011[35]13 September 2015Labour
Harriet Harman
Chris Bryant 13 September 201526 June 2016LabourJeremy Corbyn
Paul Flynn4 July 20166 October 2016Labour
Valerie Vaz 6 October 20169 May 2021Labour
Sir Keir Starmer
Thangam Debbonaire 9 May 20214 September 2023Labour
Lucy Powell 4 September 2023IncumbentLabour
Notes
  1. ^ Lloyd was Leader of the House before the Conservatives lost the 1964 election and was "retained" in the portfolio of "co-ordination of the Opposition in the Commons.[2] It is not clear whether the Conservative party at this point used the term "Shadow Leader" to describe the job,[3] but the term was used.[4]
  2. ^ Edward Heath reshuffled the Conservative front bench after being elected leader in the summer of 1964, though he rejected the term "Shadow Cabinet" and instituted a "federal system", three Shadow ministers being in charge of a general area (foreign, economic, and home affairs). For example, Alec Douglas-Home headed foreign affairs, sitting above the Shadow Foreign and Defence Secretaries. The former members of the Shadow Cabinet remained, but three members had no specific responsibilities.[6] It is unclear whether Heath himself was in effect Shadow Leader of the House, as would have been common before the Second World War, or the responsibilities were assigned to one or more shadow ministers.
  3. ^ Peart was Leader of the House going into Labour's election loss on 18 June 1970 and left the role of Shadow Leader of the House on 16 December 1971.[7] There is no evidence that anyone else served as Shadow Leader between those dates.
  4. ^ a b In October 1978, Pym was made Shadow Foreign Secretary,[12] and St John-Stevas succeeded him.[13][14]

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