Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK) of the Party until a new leader is elected. If a vacancy in the leadership occurs while the Labour Party is in government, then the Cabinet, in consultation with the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, chooses a new leader, who serves until a new leader is elected. To date, the only Deputy Leaders who have gone on to become the elected leader of the Labour Party are Clement Attlee and Michael Foot. Margaret Beckett briefly served as Labour leader following the unexpected death of John Smith in 1994. Harriet Harman was leader after Gordon Brown resigned in 2010
Organisation of the Scottish Labour Party proposals for giving it more freedom from London control. He went on to become a Fife councillor, Leader of the Council, and then MSP for Cowdenbeath. He is now Deputy Leader of the Party Lesley Quinn, joined the Labour Party as a 16-year-old junior shorthand typist. Assistant General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party, became acting general secretary in June 1999 to co-ordinate the party's 1999 European election campaign. November 1999, formally appointed as General Secretary of Scottish Labour Party. Quinn stood down at the 2008 Scottish Labour conference in Aviemore in March. Colin Smyth. Dumfries and Galloway councillor (Nith