British Political Party Leadership Contests ed by Iain Dale (Signed copy) COMING IN 2028

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est June 2028
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This book covers each political party leadership contest/election/coronation/challenhe since the 1920s. There are 91 chapters, each written by a different historian, academic, journalist of politician. It features the leadership contests, not just of the three main political parties in the UK - the Conservative Party, Labour Party and the Liberal Party/Liberal Democrats - but also the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the SNP. There are also seven chapters covering all the leadership contests in the UUP, DUP, Alliance, Communist Party of Great Britain, BNP and UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform.
Each party has developed different methods of choosing their leaders, and these have changed over the last century. These will be explained in full in the opening chapter by the book's editor, Iain Dale. It is not just actual leadership elections that are included. The criteria for inclusion is when a party changes leader, either because the previous leader dies, resigns or is toppled. What were the events that led up to a change of leader, and how did the eventual successor prevail? We've included all UK parties who have taken their seats in the UK or European Parliament over the years.

There follows a full list of the chapters and their authors...

Conservative 1922 Andrew Bonar Law Mark Garnett
Conservative 1923 Baldwin John Barnes
Conservative 1937 Chamberlain Richard Grayson
Conservatives 1940 Churchill T G Otte
Conaervative 1955 Eden Mark Fox
Conaervative 1957 Macmillan Robert Waller
Conaervative 1963 Douglas-Home Stephen Parkinson
Conaervative 1965 Heath Lord Norton
Conaervative 1975 Thatcher Simon Heffer
Conservative 1989 Thatcher Philip Cowley
Conaervative 1990 Major Michael Crick
Conaervative 1995 Major Jack Brown
Conaervative 1997 Hague Roger Gough
Conaervative 2001 Duncan-Smith Tim Bale
Conaervative 2003 Howard Max Stafford
Conaervative 2005 Cameron Edward Young
Conaervative 2016 May Natasha Clark
Conaervative 2019 Johnson Tom Skinner
Conaervative 2022 Truss John Curtice
Conaervative 2022 Sunak James Heale
Conaervative 2024 Badenoch David Jeffrey
Labour 1922 Macdonald Richard Johnson
Labour 1932 Lansbury Francis Beckett
Labour 1935 Attlee Vernon Bogdanor
Labour 1955 Gaitskell Lewis Baston
Labour 1960 Gaitskell Denis MacShane
Labour 1961 Gaitskell Greg Rosen
Labour 1963 Wilson Matthew Bailey
Labour 1976 Callaghan Robert Buckland
Labour 1980 Foot Julia Langdon
Labour 1983 Kinnock Peter Kellner
Labour 1988 Kinnock Martin Westlake
Labour 1992 Smith Connor Hand
Labour 1994 Blair Peter Riddell
Labour 2007 Brown Jimmy Chen
Labour 2010 Miliband Adam Boulton
Labour 2015 Corbyn George Parker
Labour 2016 Corbyn Patrick Diamond
Labour 2020 Starmer Gabriel Pogrund
Liberal 1926 Lloyd George David Laws
Liberal 1931 Samuel Stephen Bates
Liberal 1931 Sinclair David Walsh
Liberal 1945 Davies Russell Deacon
Liberal 1956 Grimond Mark Egan
Liberal 1967 Thorpe Matthew Cole
Liberal 1976 Steel Mark Pack
Liberal 1988 Ashdown Duncan Brack
Liberal 1999 Kennedy Henry Riley
Liberal 2006 Campbell Stephen Williams
Liberal 2007 Clegg Chris Rennard
Liberal 2015 Farron David Howarth
Liberal 2017 Cable Caron Lindsay
Liberal 2019 Swinson Alia Middleton
Liberal 2020 Davey Neil Stockley
Liberal National Party 1931-68 David Dutton
SDP 1981 Jenkins Michael McManus
SDP 1983 Owen Dick Newby
SDP 1987 Maclennan Ben Stoneham
Green Party 2007 Lucas Natalie Bennett
Green Party 2012 Bennett Russell Warfield
Green Party 2016/18 Lucas/Bartley Matthew Butcher
Green Party 2021 Denyer/Ramsay Adam Ramsay
Green Party 2025 Polanski Sam Marks
SNP 1945 Watson Malcolm Petrie
SNP 1947 McIntyre Ewen Cameron
SNP 1956 Halliday Paula Somerville
SNP 1960 Donaldson Ewen Cameron
SNP 1969 Wolfe Richard Finlay
SNP 1979 Wilson David McCrone
SNP 1990 Salmond David Torrance
SNP 2000 Swinney Andrew Tickell
SNP 2004 Salmond Gerry Hassan
SNP 2014 Sturgeon Joe Pike
SNP 2023 Yousaf Michael Russell
SNP 2024 Swinney Mark McGeoghan
Plaid Cyrmru 1945 Evans Richard Wyn Jones
Plaid Cyrmru 1981 Wigley Aled Eirug
Plaid Cyrmru 1984 Ellis-Thomas Rob Osborne
Plaid Cyrmru 1991 Wigley Owaiin Phillips
Plaid Cyrmru 2000 Wyn Jones Laura McAllister
Plaid Cyrmru 2012 Wood Anthony Pickles
Plaid Cyrmru 2018 Price Will Timmins
Plaid Cyrmru 2023 ap Iowerth Lauren McEvatt
UUP Various Jonathan Tonge
DUP Various Peter Weir
SDLP Various Michael Mckernan
Alliance Various Stephen Farry
UKIP.Brexit/Reform Various Alex Puffette
BNP Various Roger Griffin
Communist Party of GB Various Henry Bell
Common Wealth Various Michael Mullaney