Talk:Leader of the House of Commons
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I have the following probable additions to the list (with sources):
- Anthony Eden 1942-1945
- Herbert Stanley Morrison 1945-1951
- (someone else when Morrison became Foreign Secretary?)
- Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank 1951-55
- Richard Austen Butler 1955-1961
- Iain Macleod 1961-1963
- Google cache of Enfield council website
- Macleod refused to serve under Home in 1963-64
- Selwyn Lloyd 1963-4
but also
- Edward Heath 1960-1963
- Guardian profile of Heath (I think the Grauniad has got this wrong - he was LPS and FO minister during this time)
I should go to the library and try to find a proper source. --rbrwr
There can be some confusion as there are occassions when the PM formally took the position of Leader of the House, but the day to day duties were handled by someone else. If I recall correctly, Churchill was actually the formal leader for the period 1940-1942 (after a proposal to have Chamberlain was blocked by the Labour Party) but the day to day tasks were done by Attlee. Similarly in the 1924 Labour government MacDonald was formally leader, but most of the job was done by J.R. Clynes, who was formally Deputy Leader of the House. Timrollpickering 17:38, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Perhaps we should indicate both the official leader and the de facto leader in such instances. john 20:00, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone have any sense on who was leading the commons during the period between Pitt's resignation in April 1757 and the establishment of the Newcastle-Pitt ministry in July? Legge resigned, and what you've got left of senior ministers is Devonshire (Treasury), Holdernesse (Secretary of State), Granville (Lord President), Gower (Lord Privy Seal), Winchilsea (Admiralty)....all Lords. In terms of more junior posts, George Grenville was Treasurer of the Navy. Would it have been him? john k 03:37, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
