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Since 1937 the Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom has received a state salary, at first at £2,000, and rising since to £65,482. This is in addition to their salary as an MP (currently £56,358).

1 Leader of the Opposition in the UK

Those who have subsequently served as Prime Minister are indicated in italics.

• Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby - Conservative - (1859-1866)
• William Ewart Gladstone - Liberal - (1866-1868)
• Benjamin Disraeli - Conservative - (1868-1874)
• William Ewart Gladstone - Liberal - (1874-1875)
• Spencer Cavendish, called Marquess of Hartington - Liberal - (1875-1880)
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield - Conservative - (1880-1881)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Conservative - (1881-1885)
• William Ewart Gladstone - Liberal - (1885-1886)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Conservative - (1886)
• William Ewart Gladstone - Liberal - (1886-1892)
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury - Conservative - (1892-1895)
• Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery - Liberal (1895-1896)
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt - Liberal - (1896-1899)
• Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman - Liberal - (1899-1905)
• Arthur Balfour - Conservative - (1905-1911)
• Andrew Bonar Law - Conservative - (1911-1915)
• Herbert Henry AsquithHerbert Henry Asquith 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( September 12, 1852 February 15, 1928) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Born in Morley, Yorkshire and educated at the City of London School, he won a schola - Opposition Liberal - (1916-1918)
• Sir Donald MacleanSir Donald Maclean ( 1864- 1932) was a Liberal MP for Bath (1906-1910), Peebles and Selkirk (1910-1918), Peebles and South Midlothian (1918-1922), and Northern Division of Cornwall (1929-1932) and served as president of the Board of Education (1931-1932). - Opposition Liberal - (1918-1922)
• Ramsay Macdonald - Labour - (1922-1924)
• Stanley Baldwin - Conservative - ( 1924)
• Ramsay Macdonald - Labour - (1924-1929)
• Stanley Baldwin - Conservative - (1929-1931)
• Arthur Henderson - Labour - (1931)
• George Lansbury - Labour - (1931-1935)
• Clement Attlee - Labour - ( 1935- 1940)
• None (1940-1945) A succession of politicians acted as Leader of the Opposition for the purpose of allowing the House of Commons to function as normally, notably Arthur Greenwood from 1943- 1945, however none of them received the salary for the post of Leader of the Opposition.
• Clement Attlee - Labour - (1945)
• Winston Churchill - Conservative - (1945-1951)
• Clement Attlee - Labour - (1951-1955)
• Hugh Gaitskell - Labour - (1955-1963)
• Harold Wilson - Labour - (1963-1964)
• Sir Alec Douglas-Home - Conservative - (1964-1965)
• Edward Heath - Conservative - (1965-1970)
• Harold Wilson - Labour - (1970-1974)
• Edward Heath - Conservative - (1974-1975)
• Margaret Thatcher - Conservative - (1975-1979)
• James Callaghan - Labour - (1979-1980)
• Michael Foot - Labour - (1980-1983)
• Neil Kinnock - Labour - (1983-1992)
• John Smith - Labour - (1992-1994)
• Tony Blair - Labour - (1994-1997)
• John Major - Conservative - (1997)
• William Hague - Conservative - (1997-2001)
• Iain Duncan Smith - Conservative - (2001-2003)
• Michael Howard - Conservative - (2003-)

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