Leader of the Labour Party (UK) the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, as well as appointing the Cabinet. A list of leaders (including acting leaders) since 1906. It is not uncommon for a retired Leader of the Labour Party to be granted a peerage upon their retirement, particularly if they served as Prime Minister; examples of this include Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. However, Neil Kinnock was also elevated to the House of Lords, despite never being Prime Minister, and Michael Foot declined a similar offer. There are six living former party leaders: four elected and two acting.
Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party with polling generally showing Jews as evenly split between Labour and Conservatives, which remained the case in 2010 when Labour appointed its first Jewish leader Ed Miliband. However, in August 2014, Miliband came under pressure from Jewish donors and supporters of the Labour Party over his stance towards Israel's ground incursion into Gaza in summer 2014, after describing it as "wrong and unjustifiable". Subsequently, Jewish support for Labour fell to an estimated 15% in the May 2015 general election (compared to 64% for the Conservatives). After Miliband was defeated, Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour leader; he had extensively campaigned