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
Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn theatrical nature of Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs), Corbyn invited members of the public to submit questions for his first PMQs as opposition leader. Appointments in his first Shadow Cabinet included Burnham (Shadow Home Secretary), John McDonnell (Shadow Chancellor), Hilary Benn (Shadow Foreign Secretary) and Angela Eagle (Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills). Corbyn also promoted several female backbenchers, forming a Shadow Cabinet that for the first time had a greater number of women than men. Under Corbyn's leadership the Labour Party has shifted ideologically to the left and away from the centre-ground of previous leaders, such as