List of United Kingdom Labour Party leaders

List of United Kingdom Labour Party leaders

This is a list of the leaders of the Labour Party.

The post of Leader of the Labour Party was created in 1922. Before this (1906-22) the post was known as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Thorpe, Andrew. (2001) "A History Of The British Labour Party", Palgrave, ISBN 0-333-92908-x]

"Although these were technically leaders of the Labour Party, they only assumed this role because of the death of the incumbent and were not elected to the post. They were in effect acting leaders."

ee also

*History of the British Labour Party

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