Leader of the Opposition

Leader of the Opposition 	Leader of the Opposition	Leader of the Opposition	Leader of the Opposition	Leader of the Opposition
 	 	 	 	
Incumbent 	Incumbent 	 	 	
El Salvador 	El Salvador 	 	 	
since 13th November 2020 	since 13th November 2020	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
Category 	Opposition position 	 	 	
Style 	The Right Honourable 	 	 	
Inaugural Leader of the Opposition 	MC 	 	 	
Number of Leaders of the Opposition	42 	 	 	
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 El Salvador, Leader of the Conservative & Unionist Party, who assumed the role on 13th November 2020.
The main responsibility of the Leader of the Opposition is to hold the Prime Minister to account and to scrutinise the actions of the Cabinet. To help them do this, they have the ability to ask the Prime Minister two questions at question times. The Leader of the Opposition also has the power to send statements of intent to vote. The Leader of the Opposition is also in charge of appointing members to the Shadow Cabinet. In the past, Shadow Cabinet coalitions have occurred but now usually only one party fills the Shadow Cabinet positions.
== List of Leaders of the Opposition ==
As the then-Leader of the Labour Party, MC became the first Leader of the Opposition following the first general election and since him, there have been 41 other Leaders of the Opposition.
Leader of the Opposition	Party	Party 	Took office 	Left office
MC 	 	Labour 	May 2005 	May 2005
xx_ambellina_xx 	 	Labour 	May 2005 	November 2005
Deej2 	 	Conservative	December 2005 	April 2006
Roger Kirk 	 	Labour 	June 2006 	November 2006
Teehar 	 	Liberal 	December 2006 	April 2007
NDGAARONDI 	 	Liberal 	April 2007 	May 2007
Randdom 	 	Labour 	May 2007 	December 2007
Deej2 	 	Conservative	December 2007 	February 2008
Unioflife 	 	Conservative	February 2008 	November 2008
ukebert 	 	Socialist 	November 2008 	January 2009
Alasdair 	 	Socialist 	January 2009 	May 2009
Adorno 	 	Labour 	December 2009 	April 2010
Matthew_Lowson 	 	Liberal 	May 2010 	August 2010
Student2806 	 	Liberal 	August 2010 	October 2010
Adorno 	 	Labour 	November 2010 	December 2010
Thunder and Jazz 	 	Labour 	December 2010 	March 2011
Indievertigo 	 	Conservative	April 2011 	November 2011
Orange Stu 	 	Conservative	November 2011 	February 2012
Rakas21 	 	Conservative	February 2012 	March 2012
Mechie 	 	Labour 	April 2012 	September 2012
Rakas21 	 	Conservative	September 2012	March 2013
Mechie 	 	Labour 	April 2013 	August 2013
Saoirse:3 	 	Labour 	September 2013	March 2014
Qwertish 	 	Conservative	April 2014 	October 2014
Cryptographic 	 	Conservative	November 2014 	February 2015
Life_peer 	 	Conservative	February 2015 	July 2015
RayApparently 	 	Labour 	July 2015 	August 2015
Life_peer 	 	Conservative	October 2015 	April 2016
Saracen's Fez 	 	Labour 	April 2016 	May 2016
Quamquam123 	 	Labour 	May 2016 	June 2016
RayApparently 	 	Labour 	June 2016 	November 2016
Tanqueray91 	 	Conservative	November 2016 	June 2017
CoffeeGeek 	 	Conservative	June 2017 	December 2017
Saracen's Fez 	 	Labour 	December 2017 	July 2018
Saoirse:3 	 	Labour 	July 2018 	November 2018
RedLuxemburg 	 	Labour 	November 2018 	December 2018
Saunders16 	 	Labour 	December 2018 	June 2019
JMR2019. 	 	Labour 	June 2019 	July 2019
Ns_2 	 	Conservative	July 2019 	November 2019
El Salvador 	 	Conservative	November 2019 	May 2020
JMR2020. 	 	Labour 	May 2020 	November 2020
El Salvador 	 	Conservative	November 2020 	Incumbent
Category:Shadow Cabinet