Leaders of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition

Since the Parliament Act 1911, there have been 42 Leaders of the Opposition in the United Kingdom. How many can you name?

Parties: Conservative, Independent Liberal, Labour

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Assumed Office	Leader of the Opposition
19 October 1915	Edward Carson
6 December 1916	H. H. Asquith
14 December 1918	Donald Maclean
12 February 1920	H. H. Asquith
21 November 1922	Ramsay MacDonald
22 January 1924	Stanley Baldwin
4 November 1924	Ramsay MacDonald
5 June 1929	Stanley Baldwin
1 September 1931	Arthur Henderson
25 October 1931	George Lansbury
25 October 1935	Clement Attlee
22 May 1940	Hastings Lees-Smith
21 January 1942	Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
February 1942	Arthur Greenwood
23 May 1945	Clement Attlee
26 July 1945	Winston Churchill
26 October 1951	Clement Attlee
26 November 1955	Herbert Morrison
14 December 1955	Hugh Gaitskell
18 January 1963	George Brown
14 February 1963	Harold Wilson

Assumed Office	Leader of the Opposition
16 October 1964	Alec Douglas-Home
28 July 1965	Edward Heath
19 June 1970	Harold Wilson
4 March 1974	Edward Heath
11 February 1975	Margaret Thatcher
4 May 1979	James Callaghan
10 November 1980	Michael Foot
2 October 1983	Neil Kinnock
18 July 1992	John Smith
12 May 1994	Margaret Beckett
21 July 1994	Tony Blair
2 May 1997	John Major
19 June 1997	William Hague
13 September 2001	Iain Duncan Smith
6 November 2003	Michael Howard
6 December 2005	David Cameron
11 May 2010	Harriet Harman
25 September 2010	Ed Miliband
8 May 2015	Harriet Harman
12 September 2015	Jeremy Corbyn
4 April 2020	Keir Starmer

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