After his government's defeat, Mackenzie remained Leader of the Opposition for another two years, until 1880.

Harold Wilson, then the Leader of the Opposition in the Commons, reiterated his belief that a united Ireland was the only possible solution to Northern Ireland's Troubles.

During this period, financial problems again almost forced Attlee to quit politics, as his wife was ill and there was then no separate salary for the Leader of the Opposition.

On 4 August 2005, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry called for more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the Military personnel, to be recruited.

Downer met government ministers and officials, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry, and Military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama.

The Governor General appoints the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

The then Leader of the Opposition, Robert Menzies, called McKell's appointment " shocking and humiliating ".

Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition, and Shadow Foreign Secretary ( as Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was Foreign Secretary prior to the election, had lost his seat ), and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997.

* 1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and stateswoman, Leader of the Opposition ( d. 1967 )

After a short period as Leader of the Opposition and now more than 75 years old, St-Laurent's motivation to be involved in politics was gone.

Most of the work is executed by the Executive Branch which consists of the Cabinet of Ministers, Leader of the Opposition and also other members of the parliament.

He was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.

He was replying to queries from Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang on the next course of action to be taken by Malaysia and Asean with the Burmese military junta.

He probably served as Opposition Leader longer than anyone in the history of modern democratic politics.

The Leader of the Opposition is David Shearer, who replaced Phil Goff as leader of the Labour Party.

After that loss, Fadden became deputy Leader of the Opposition under Menzies, a role that continued after Menzies folded the UAP into the Liberal Party of Australia in 1944.

He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, making him the longest-serving Leader of the Opposition in British political history to date, and the longest never to have become Prime Minister.

The Governor General appoints the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.

Seated in the front, directly across from the ministers on the Treasury Bench, the leaders of the opposition form a " Shadow Government ", complete with a salaried " Shadow Prime Minister ", the Leader of the Opposition, ready to assume office if the government falls or loses the next election.

Also, in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President Bill Clinton by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was also given a meeting with Clinton in order to diffuse Bouchard's separatist leverage.

Despite Conservative hopes, the first GLC consisted of 64 Labour and 36 Conservative councillors and Labour Group leader Bill Fiske became the first Leader of the Council.

He wrote numerous articles for Boys ' Life and Scouting magazines, including a column aimed at patrol leaders under the by-line of " Patrol Leader Green Bar Bill ".

The Conservative Party currently lead a minority administration in South Ayrshire, with Bill McKintosh as Leader of the Council and Winifred Sloan as Provost.

In campaigning in South Dakota for Thune, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on May 24, 2004 said of Daschle: " Who is the president going to listen to more?

In the book, Lott spoke out on the remark he made at the Strom Thurmond birthday party, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and about his feelings of betrayal toward the Tennessee senator, claiming " If Frist had not announced exactly when he did, as the fire was about to burn out, I would still be majority leader of the Senate today.

* Bill Leader, English record producer

This position was not part of the NDP's official party policy, leading some high-profile party members, such as NDP House Leader Bill Blaikie and former NDP leader Alexa McDonough, to publicly indicate that they did not share Layton's views.

* Bill Graham ( 1964 )-former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Defence, and interim Leader of the Opposition

* Bill Graham ( Canadian politician ) ( born 1939 ), Canadian politician, former Leader of the Opposition and former interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

Bill Frist, a cardiothoracic surgeon and former U. S. Senate Majority Leader, is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

He succeeded Bill Rowling as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and as Leader of the Opposition on 3 February 1983.

Shipley continued to lead the Party until October 2001, when Bill English took over the leadership and the role of Leader of the Opposition, and she subsequently retired from Parliament in 2002.

In 2006, the Oxford branch of the party won a libel action against Bill Baker, Deputy Leader of Oxford City Council, who had posted defamatory material alleging the IWCA had links to violent extremists and Irish Republican groups to homes in Donnington Brook in the run-up to the 2005 local elections.

Senator Bill Frist, the Majority Leader, did not seek re-election in the 2006 elections.

In October 2003, Brash publicly challenged Bill English for the position of Parliamentary Leader of the National Party.

Since its inception, the Center has gathered a group of high-profile senior fellows, including Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan ; Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama ; Ruy Teixeira, political scientist and author of The Emerging Democratic Majority ; and, most recently, former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Elizabeth Edwards, late wife of former Presidential candidate and former U. S. Sen. from North Carolina John Edwards.

The latter prefix was used with a series of LPs produced by Bill Leader ( who worked with Nat Joseph from the outset as an engineer ).

Bill Leader, who produced the album, said " It seems to me, in retrospect, that each day a different member of the group had decided that this was it: ' Sod this for a game of soldiers, I'm leaving the group!

While other members of Congress who come from a medical background prefer to be referred to as " Doctor " while serving in Congress ( most notably former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ), Simpson does not insist that he be referred to as Dr. Simpson, preferring to simply go by Congressman or Mr. Simpson.

Bryant sought the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate seat then-held by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who did not seek re-election in 2006.

He was named Opposition House Leader by interim Liberal leader Bill Graham in 2006, and continued to serve in this role under the leadership of Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff until September 2010 when he was promoted to Deputy Leader.

In the United States Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist presented Senate Resolution 362 on behalf of all U. S. Senators, with the afternoon hours filled with respectful tributes throughout the U. S. Capitol.