The Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition (more commonly known as the Leader of the Opposition) is the politician who leads the official opposition in the United Kingdom. The Leader of the Opposition by convention leads the largest party not within the government: where one party wins outright this is the party leader of the second largest political party in the House of Commons. The current Leader of the Opposition is Katie Spector, Leader of the Conservatives, who was elected in September 2020.
List of Leaders of the Opposition[]
| Leader | Term | Party | Party Opposing | Leader of Main Party | ||||
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John Ruskin | 19 March 2019 - 25 June 2019 |
Labour | Conservative | Enzo Liddell-Grainger | |||
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Arthur B. Hitchens | 25 June 2019 3 July 2019 |
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Jeremy Thorpe | Since 3 July 2019 | Liberal Democrats | |||||
| Kacey Spector | Since 19 September 2020 | Conservative | DSP | Mary Wilson | ||||
| Viktor Svenska | Since 26th September | |||||||