Leader of the House of Commons

Rt Hon Henry Fox 26 May 176216 April 1763
Charles James Fox 27 March 17825 July 1782
Charles Grey, Viscount Howick September 1806March 1807
Rt Hon John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp 22 November 183014 November 1834
Rt Hon John Russell 18 April 183530 August 1841
Rt Hon Benjamin Disraeli 27 February 185217 December 1852
Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone November 1865
Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, bt 18851886
Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill 3 August 188620 December 1886
Rt Hon William Henry Smith 14 January 18876 October 1891
Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour 6 October 189115 August 1892
Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law 1916March 1921
Rt Hon Joseph Austen Chamberlain 1 April 192123 October 1922
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald 5 June 19297 June 1935
Rt Hon Sir Richard Stafford Cripps 1942October 1942
Rt Hon Herbert Stanley Morrison 27 July 19459 March 1951
Rt Hon James Chuter Ede 27 October 19511951
Rt Hon Richard Austin Butler 20 December 1955October 1959
Rt Hon Iain Norman Macleod 9 October 196120 October 1963
Rt Hon John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd October 1963October 1964
Rt Hon Herbert William Bowden 19641966
Rt Hon Richard Howard Stafford Crossman 19661969
Rt Hon Thomas Frederick Peart April 196819 June 1970
Rt Hon William Stephen Ian Whitelaw 20 June 19707 April 1972
Rt Hon Leonard Robert Carr 7 April 19725 November 1972
Rt Hon James Michael Leathes Prior 5 November 19724 March 1974
Rt Hon Edward Watson Short 5 March 19748 April 1976
Rt Hon Michael Mackintosh Foot 8 April 19764 May 1979
Norman Anthony Francis St John Stevas May 19795 January 1981
Rt Hon Francis Leslie Pym 5 January 19815 April 1982
Rt Hon William John Biffen 5 April 198213 June 1987
Rt Hon John Wakeham 13 June 1987July 1989
Rt Hon Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe 24 July 19891 November 1990
Rt Hon John Roddick Russell MacGregor 2 November 199010 April 1992
Rt Hon Antony Harold Newton 11 April 19922 May 1997
Rt Hon Winifred Ann Taylor 3 May 199727 July 1998
Rt Hon Margaret Mary Beckett 27 July 19988 June 2001
Rt Hon Robert Finlayson Cook 8 June 200117 March 2003
Rt Hon Dr John Reid 4 April 200312 June 2003
Rt Hon Peter Gerald Hain 12 June 20036 May 2005
Rt Hon Geoffrey William Hoon 6 May 20055 May 2006
Rt Hon John Whitaker Straw 5 May 200628 June 2007
Rt Hon Harriet Ruth Harman 28 June 200711 May 2010
Rt Hon Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, bt 12 May 20104 September 2012
Rt Hon Andrew David Lansley 4 September 201214 July 2014
Rt Hon William Jefferson Hague 14 July 20148 May 2015
Rt Hon Christopher Stephen Grayling 10 May 201514 July 2016
Rt Hon David Roy Lidington 14 July 201611 June 2017
Rt Hon Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom 11 June 201722 May 2019
Rt Hon Melvyn John Stride 23 May 201924 July 2019
Jacob William Rees-Mogg 24 July 20198 February 2022
Rt Hon Mark Steven Spencer 8 February 20226 September 2022
Rt Hon Penelope Mary Mordaunt 6 September 20225 July 2024