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
1996 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election 1996 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election The New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, 1996 was intended to determine the future leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party. The leadership was retained by MP Helen Clark, who was the incumbent leader. Labour were down in opinion polls with the Alliance party being seen as an increasing threat to Labour as the main left wing party in New Zealand. Labour was still associated with its unpopular Rogernomics image from the 1980s, which Clark was attempting to erase. However this was part of a wider divide inside Labour between its drastically differing