Claim: Fox, never acknowledged as the leader of a faction of the Whigs from 1784, first served as the government Leader of the House of Commons in 1782, and remained in opposition after 1794.
Evidence: Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Leader of the House of Commons