Facts: - incumbent: lord wallace of tankerness - incumbentsince: october 2013 - post: leader lords of the liberal democrats in the house of - inaugural: lord jenkins of hillhead - image: jim wallace.jpg - formation: 3 march 1988 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of leader of the liberal democrats in the house of article_title_10:lords .
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the liberal democrat peers elect the leader of the liberal democrats in the house of lords .until the election of lord wallace of tankerness in october 2013 , all previous leaders had been members of the labour party who left to form the social democratic party in 1981 before merging with the liberal party in 1988 .