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Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party
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Incumbent Kemi Badenoch since 2 November 2024
Type	Party leader
Status	Chief executive officer
Inaugural holder	Robert Peel (de facto) Bonar Law (de jure)
Formation	1834 (de facto) 1922 (de jure)

The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Kemi Badenoch, who was elected to the position on 2 November 2024, following her victory against Robert Jenrick in the party's leadership election.

From the party's formation in 1834 until 1922, the leader of the Conservative Party was not a formal position; instead, there was a party leader in each chamber of Parliament, and they were considered equal unless one took precedence over the other, such as when one was serving as prime minister. Following the passage of the Parliament Act 1911, the reduction of power in the House of Lords suggested that the Conservative leader in the House of Commons would be preeminent, but this fact was not formalised until 1922.

Since 1922, a leader of the Conservative Party has been formally elected, even when the party is in opposition. Originally, the party leader was appointed opaquely by other high-ranking members of the party. This process was gradually democratised in the late 20th century; in 1965, the appointment was linked to a vote by party MPs, and in 1998, the process was opened to all party members to decide between the last two candidates selected by parliamentarians. Under the party's rules, a member can vote in its leadership elections even if they are not a British citizen, do not reside in the UK, and do not have the right to vote in British elections.

When the Conservative Party is in opposition, as it currently is, the leader of the Conservative Party usually acts (as the second-largest party) as the Leader of the Opposition, and chairs the shadow cabinet. Concordantly, when the party is in government, the leader would usually become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Minister for the Union, as well as appointing the Cabinet. Four of the party's leaders have been women: Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch, all of whom, except Badenoch, have served as prime minister. Rishi Sunak is the first British Indian party leader and prime minister. The only Conservative leaders not to contest a general election (excluding temporary acting leaders) are Iain Duncan Smith and Truss (both of whom resigned before an election was called).

Selection process

Under the party's constitution, leaders are elected by serving MPs and party members whose membership started at least three months prior to the closing of a ballot. Candidates must be serving MPs. A former leader who has resigned may not stand in the contest triggered by their departure.

Those who wish to stand must notify the 1922 Committee, a body representing backbench Conservative Party MPs, which has broad powers to set the rules of the leadership race (e.g. the minimum number of nominees candidates need).

The party's practice is for MPs to eliminate candidates through multiple rounds of voting until two remain, from whom the winner is then chosen by a ballot of party members.

The 1922 Committee's chairman acts as the returning officer for all stages of the leadership election process.

Overall leaders of the party (1834–1922)

Overall leader(birth–death)	Portrait	Constituency or title	Took office	Left office	Government
					Party		Prime Minister	Term
Sir Robert Peel(1788–1850)		Tamworth	18 December 1834	29 June 1846		Con	himself	1834–35
						Whig	Melbourne	1835–41
						Con	himself	1841–46
Edward Smith-Stanley (1799–1869)		Baron Stanley (1846–1851)	29 June 1846	27 February 1868		Whig	Russell	1846–52
		14th Earl of Derby (1851–1868)				Con	himself	1852
						Peel	Aberdeen	1852–55
						Whig	Palmerston	1855–58
						Con	himself	1858–59
						Lib	Palmerston	1859–65
						Lib	Russell	1865–66
						Con	himself	1866–68
Benjamin Disraeli(1804–1881)		Buckinghamshire(1868–1876)	27 February 1868	19 April 1881		Con	himself	1868
						Lib	Gladstone	1868–74
						Con	himself	1874–80
		1st Earl of Beaconsfield(1876–1881)				Lib	Gladstone	1880–85
vacant	Leader in the House of Lords Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Leader in the House of Commons Stafford Northcote		19 April 1881	23 June 1885
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil(1830–1903)		3rd Marquess of Salisbury	23 June 1885	11 July 1902		Con	himself	1885–86
						Lib	Gladstone	1886
						Con	himself	1886–92
						Lib	Gladstone	1892–94
						Lib	Rosebery	1894–95
						Con	himself	1895–1902
Arthur Balfour(1848–1930)		Manchester East(1902–1906)	11 July 1902	13 November 1911		Con	himself	1902–05
		City of London(1906–1911)				Lib	C.-Bannerman	1905–08
						Lib	Asquith	1908–16
vacant	Leader in the House of Lords Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Leader in the House of Commons Bonar Law		13 November 1911	10 December 1916
						Lib	Lloyd George	1916–22
Andrew Bonar Law(1858–1923)		Bootle(1916–1918)	10 December 1916	21 March 1921
		Glasgow Central(1918–1921)
vacant	Leader in the House of Lords George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Leader in the House of Commons Austen Chamberlain		21 March 1921	23 October 1922

Leaders of the party (1922–present)

Leader (birth–death)	Portrait	Constituency or title	Took office	Left office	Government
					Party		Prime Minister	Term
Andrew Bonar Law (1858–1923)		Glasgow Central	23 October 1922 (Party meeting)	28 May 1923		Con	himself	1922–23
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947)		Bewdley	28 May 1923 (Party meeting)	31 May 1937		Con	himself	1923–24
						Lab	MacDonald	1924
						Con	himself	1924–29
						Lab	MacDonald	1929–35
						NLab
						Con	himself	1935–37
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940)		Birmingham Edgbaston	31 May 1937 (Party meeting)	9 October 1940		Con	himself	1937–40
							Churchill	1940
Winston Churchill (1874–1965)		Epping (1940–1945)	9 October 1940 (Party meeting)	21 April 1955		Con	himself	1940–45
		Woodford (1945–1955)				Lab	Attlee	1945–51
						Con	himself	1951–55
Anthony Eden (1897–1977)		Warwick and Leamington	21 April 1955 (Party meeting)	22 January 1957		Con	himself	1955–57
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986)		Bromley	22 January 1957 (Party meeting)	11 November 1963		Con	himself	1957–63
Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995)		Earl of Home (1963)	11 November 1963 (Party meeting)	27 July 1965		Con	himself	1963–64
		Kinross and Western Perthshire (1963–1965)
						Lab	Wilson	1964–70
Edward Heath (1916–2005)		Bexley (1965 – 1974)	27 July 1965 (Elected)	11 February 1975
						Con	himself	1970–74
		Sidcup (1974–1975)
						Lab	Wilson	1974–76
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013)		Finchley	11 February 1975 (Elected)	27 November 1990
						Lab	Callaghan	1976–79
						Con	herself	1979–90
John Major (b. 1943)		Huntingdon	27 November 1990 (Opponents withdrew)	19 June 1997
						Con	himself	1990–97
						Lab	Blair	1997–2007
William Hague (b. 1961)		Richmond (Yorks)	19 June 1997 (Elected)	13 September 2001
Iain Duncan Smith (b. 1954)		Chingford and Woodford Green	13 September 2001 (Elected)	6 November 2003
Michael Howard (b. 1941)		Folkestone and Hythe	6 November 2003 (Unopposed)	7 October 2005
David Cameron (b. 1966)		Witney	6 December 2005 (Elected)	11 July 2016
						Lab	Brown	2007–10
						Coal	himself	2010–15
						Con		2015–16
Theresa May (b. 1956)		Maidenhead	11 July 2016 (Opponents withdrew)	7 June 2019		Con	herself	2016–19
			7 June 2019 (Acting)	23 July 2019
Boris Johnson (b. 1964)		Uxbridge and South Ruislip	23 July 2019 (Elected)	5 September 2022		Con	himself	2019–22
Liz Truss (b. 1975)		South West Norfolk	5 September 2022 (Elected)	24 October 2022		Con	herself	2022
Rishi Sunak (b. 1980)		Richmond (Yorks) (2015–2024)	24 October 2022 (Unopposed)	24 July 2024		Con	himself	2022–24
		Richmond and Northallerton (2024)	24 July 2024 (Acting)	2 November 2024		Lab	Starmer	2024–present
Kemi Badenoch (b. 1980)		North West Essex	2 November 2024 (Elected)	Incumbent

Timeline

Houses of Lords and Commons leaders

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Leaders in the House of Lords (1834–present)

Those asterisked were considered the overall leader of the party.

• The Duke of Wellington: 1834–1846
• Lord Stanley (14th Earl of Derby from 1851): 9 March 1846 – 27 February 1868*, elected at a party meeting (see § House of Lords, below)
• The Earl of Malmesbury: 1868–1869, appointed by Prime Minister Disraeli
• The Lord Cairns: 1869–1870, elected at a party meeting (see House of Lords)

Portrait	Leader	Term of office		LOTO	Other ministerial offices held as Leader of the House of Lords
	The Duke of Richmond and Lennox	26 February 1870	21 August 1876	1870–1874	– Lord President of the Council (21 February 1874 – 28 April 1880)
	The Earl of Beaconsfield*	21 August 1876	19 April 1881	1880–1881	– Prime Minister (20 February 1874 – 21 April 1880) – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (12 August 1876 – 4 February 1878)
	The Marquess of Salisbury*	9 May 1881	12 July 1902	1881–1885 1886 1892–1895	– Prime Minister (23 June 1885 – 28 January 1886) – Foreign Secretary (24 June 1885 – 6 February 1886) – Prime Minister (25 July 1886 – 11 August 1892) – Foreign Secretary (14 January 1887 – 11 August 1892) – Prime Minister (25 June 1895 – 11 July 1902) – Foreign Secretary (29 June 1895 – 12 November 1900) – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (12 November 1900 – 11 July 1902)
	The Duke of Devonshire	12 July 1902	10 October 1903		– Lord President of the Council (29 June 1895 – 19 October 1903) – President of the Board of Education (3 March 1900 – 8 August 1902)
	The Marquess of Lansdowne	10 October 1903	10 December 1916	1905–1915	– Foreign Secretary (12 November 1900 – 4 December 1905) – Minister without Portfolio (25 May 1915 – 10 December 1916)
	The Earl Curzon of Kedleston (1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston from 1921)	10 December 1916	20 March 1925	1924	– President of the Air Board (15 May 1916 – 3 January 1917) – Lord President of the Council (10 December 1916 – 23 October 1919) – Foreign Secretary (23 October 1919 – 22 January 1924) – Lord President of the Council (3 November 1924 – 20 March 1925)
	The Marquess of Salisbury	27 April 1925	17 June 1931	1929–1931	– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (6 November 1924 – 4 June 1929)
	The Viscount Hailsham	17 June 1931	7 June 1935	1931	– War Secretary (5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935)
	The Marquess of Londonderry	7 June 1935	22 November 1935		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Viscount Halifax	22 November 1935	21 February 1938		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (22 November 1935 – 28 May 1937) – Lord President of the Council (22 May 1937 – 9 March 1938)
	The Earl Stanhope	21 February 1938	14 May 1940		– President of the Board of Education (28 May 1937 – 27 October 1938) – First Lord of the Admiralty (27 October 1938 – 3 September 1939) – Lord President of the Council (3 September 1939 – 10 May 1940)
	The Viscount Caldecot	14 May 1940	3 October 1940		– Dominions Secretary
	The Viscount Halifax	3 October 1940	22 December 1940		– Foreign Secretary (21 February 1938 – 22 December 1940)
	The Lord Lloyd	22 December 1940	8 February 1941		– Colonial Secretary (12 May 1940 – 4 February 1941)
	The Lord Moyne	8 February 1941	22 February 1942		– Colonial Secretary
	Viscount Cranborne (5th Marquess of Salisbury from 1947)	21 February 1942	29 March 1957	1945–1951	– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (21 February 1942 – 24 September 1943) – Colonial Secretary (21 February 1942 – 22 November 1942) – Dominions Secretary (24 September 1943 – 26 July 1945) – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (28 October 1951 – 7 May 1952) – Commonwealth Relations Secretary (12 March 1952 – 24 November 1952) – Lord President of the Council (25 November 1952 – 29 March 1957)
	The Earl of Home	29 March 1957	27 July 1960		– Commonwealth Relations Secretary (7 April 1955 – 27 July 1960) – Lord President of the Council (until 17 September 1957, from 14 October 1959)
	The Viscount Hailsham	27 July 1960	20 October 1963		– Lord President of the Council – Minister for Science (14 October 1959 – 20 October 1963)
	The Lord Carrington	20 October 1963	20 June 1970	1964–1970	– Minister without Portfolio (20 October 1963 – 16 October 1964)
	The Earl Jellicoe	20 June 1970	23 May 1973		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Lord Windlesham	23 May 1973	4 March 1974		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Lord Carrington	4 March 1974	4 May 1979	1974–1979	–
	The Lord Soames	5 May 1979	14 September 1981		– Lord President of the Council
	The Baroness Young	14 September 1981	11 June 1983		– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (14 September 1981 – 7 April 1982) – Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (7 April 1982 – 11 June 1983)
	The Viscount Whitelaw	11 June 1983	10 January 1988		– Lord President of the Council
	The Lord Belstead	10 January 1988	28 November 1990		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Lord Waddington	28 November 1990	11 April 1992		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Lord Wakeham	11 April 1992	20 July 1994		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	Viscount Cranborne (7th Marquess of Salisbury from 2003)	20 July 1994	3 December 1998	1997–1998	– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (20 July 1994 – 2 May 1997)
	The Lord Strathclyde	3 December 1998	7 January 2013	1998–2010	– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (12 May 2010 – 7 January 2013)
	The Lord Hill of Oareford	7 January 2013	15 July 2014		– Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
	The Baroness Stowell of Beeston	15 July 2014	14 July 2016		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park	14 July 2016	6 September 2022		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	The Lord True	6 September 2022	Incumbent		– Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal

Leaders in the House of Commons (1834–1922)

Those asterisked were considered the overall leader of the party.

• Sir Robert Peel: 18 December 1834 – 1846*
• Lord George Bentinck: 1846–1847
• The Marquess of Granby: 9 February 1848 – 4 March 1848, elected at a party meeting (see § House of Commons, below)
• None: 1848–1849
• Jointly Benjamin Disraeli, the Marquess of Granby, and John Charles Herries: 1849–1852, elected at a party meeting (see House of Commons)
• Benjamin Disraeli: 1852 – 21 August 1876 (overall leader from 27 February 1868)
• Sir Stafford Northcote: 21 August 1876 – 24 June 1885, appointed by Prime Minister Beaconsfield
• Sir Michael Hicks Beach: 24 June 1885 – 3 August 1886, appointed by Prime Minister Salisbury
• Lord Randolph Churchill: 3 August 1886 – 14 January 1887, appointed by Prime Minister Salisbury
• William Henry Smith: 17 January 1887 – 6 October 1891, appointed by Prime Minister Salisbury
• Arthur Balfour: 1891 – 13 January 1906, appointed by Prime Minister Salisbury (overall leader from 1902)
• Joseph Chamberlain: 1906
• Arthur Balfour: 1906 – 13 November 1911*
• Bonar Law: 13 November 1911 – 21 March 1921, elected at a party meeting (see House of Commons) (overall leader from 1916)
• Austen Chamberlain: 21 March 1921 – 23 October 1922, elected at a party meeting (see House of Commons)

Elections of Conservative leaders by party meeting

House of Commons

House of Lords

Deputy Leaders of the Conservative Party

Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party is sometimes an official title of a senior Conservative politician of the United Kingdom.

Some are given this title officially by the party, such as Peter Lilley, while others are given the title as an unofficial description by the media, such as William Hague. The first politician to hold the office as such was Reginald Maudling, appointed by Edward Heath in 1965. Distinct from being "second-in-command", there is formally no current position of deputy party leader in the party's hierarchy.

The term has sometimes been mistakenly used to refer to the party's deputy chair.

List of deputy leaders

See also

• 1922 Committee
• Leader of the Labour Party (UK)
• Leader of the Liberal Democrats

Notes

1. ^ Date of the Tamworth Manifesto.
2. Died in office
3. ^ Date on which Law became Leader of the House of Commons.
4. Granby resigned "either in the end of December or on one of the first days of January ".
5. Date on which Balfour failed to be elected in Manchester East.

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