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United Kingdom Leader of the House of Lords
Incumbent Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon since 5 July 2024
Office of the Leader of the House
Type	House Leader
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	Prime Minister

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Theleader of the House of Lords is a member of theCabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in theHouse of Lords. ("Government" here means the controlling faction of the parliament, headed by the Prime Minister.) The post is also the leader of the governing party in the House of Lords who acts as the government party chairperson in the house. The role is always held in combination with a formalCabinet position, usually one of thesinecure offices ofLord President of the Council,Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal orChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Unless the Leader is also a departmental minister, being Leader constitutes the bulk of their government responsibilities, but it has never been an independent salaried office. TheOffice of the Leader of the House of Lords is aministerial department.^[1]

Though the leader of the House is a member of the cabinet and remains a partisan figure, the leader also has responsibilities to the House as a whole. In contrast to theHouse of Commons, where proceedings are controlled by thespeaker, proceedings in the Lords are controlled by peers themselves, under the rules set out in the Standing Orders. The leader of the House has the responsibility of reminding the House of these rules and facilitating the Lords' self-regulation, though any member may draw attention to breaches of order or failure to observe customs. The Leader is often called upon to advise on procedures and points of order and is required to determine the order of speakers on Supplementary Questions, subject to the wishes of the House. However, like theLord Speaker, the Leader of the House has no power to rule on points of order or to intervene during an inappropriate speech.

Until the election of the first Lord Speaker on 4 July 2006, the Leader of the House had responsibility for making preliminary decisions on requests for Private Notice Questions and for waiving thesub judice rule in certain cases. Those functions were transferred to the Lord Speaker.

The title seems to have come into use some time after 1800, as a formal way of referring to the peer who managed government business in the upper House, irrespective of which salaried position they held in the cabinet. However, it may have been used as early as 1689, applied toGeorge Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, when he was Speaker of the House of Lords during theConvention Parliament of that year.^{[citation needed]}

The role developed during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the role ofPrime Minister and the system of Cabinet government. In the wake of theEnglish Civil War, theGlorious Revolution and the succession of theHanoverians to the throne, Britain evolved a system of government where ministers were sustained in office by their ability to carry legislation through Parliament. It was therefore necessary for a member of the government to take responsibility for steering government legislation through each House.

TheEarl of Sunderland initiated aspects of the role during theWhig Junto underQueen Anne. Sunderland and the other Whigs were dismissed from office in reaction to their co-ordination of government matters, which was taken as a threat to the power of the monarch. Sunderland returned to power underGeorge I, asLord Privy Seal. The first documentary evidence of the existence of the role comes from 1717, when Sunderland becameSecretary of State for the Northern Department: in the form of lists of peers invited to the office of the Northern Secretary immediately before sessions of Parliament.

When thePrime Minister sat in the House of Lords, which was common until the beginning of the twentieth century, he usually held the position of Leader of the House of Lords. When the Prime Minister sat in the Commons, the position of Leader of the Lords was often held by theForeign Secretary orColonial Secretary. In some coalition governments, it was held by the party leader who was not Prime Minister.

Since the end of theMarquess of Salisbury's last government, in 1902, the position clearly exists in its own right as a member of the cabinet. Since 1966 it has only been combined with sinecure positions and the holder has not been a departmental minister though some have held additional responsibilities such asQuintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham also being designated "Minister for Science" orMargaret Baroness Jay also being "Minister for Women". The first female Leader of the Lords wasJanet Young, Baroness Young in 1981–1983.Lord Peart,Viscount Whitelaw andLord Wakeham served as Leader of the Lords having previously beenLeader of the House of Commons.

• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1885 to 1886, from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1902. His sonJames Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader from 1925 to 1929. His son in turn,Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury served as Leader first from 1942 to 1945 as Viscount Cranborne by means of awrit of acceleration, and as the Marquess of Salisbury from 1951 to 1957. His grandson,Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, served as Leader from 1994 to 1997, as Viscount Cranborne, again by means of a writ of acceleration.
• Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1931 to 1935. His sonQuintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham served as Leader from 1960 to 1963.

• Management and delivery of the Government's legislative programme (through theHouse of Lords) and facilitating the passage of individual bills.
• Leading the House (in the Chamber and as a key member of domestic committees to do with procedure, conduct, and the internal governance of the House).
• Issues connected to the House of Lords and its governance.
• Speaking for the Government in the Chamber on a range of issues, including repeating in the House of Lords statements made to theCommons by thePrime Minister.
• Ceremonial and other duties as theLord Keeper of the Privy Seal.

Because the post is a parliamentary one and not a ministerial office in its own right, it is not always included in official lists of government offices, especially for earlier periods. This can make it difficult to determine who the Leader of the House of Lords was in a particular ministry.

Leader			Term of office		Other ministerial offices held as Leader of the House of Lords	Political party	Prime Minister
		Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland[2]	April 1717	March 1718	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department		No such office
		James Stanhope 1st Earl Stanhope[2] Viscount Stanhope until April 1718	March 1718	5 February 1721	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department		No such office
		Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townshend[2]	February 1721	May 1730	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department	Whig		Robert Walpole
		William Stanhope 1st Earl of Harrington[2] Lord Harrington until 1742	May 1730	February 1742	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department
		John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville Baron Carteret until 1744	12 February 1742	24 November 1744	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department	Whig		Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington(until July 1743)
								Henry Pelham(from 27 August 1743)
		William Stanhope 1st Earl of Harrington[2]	November 1744	October 1746	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department
		Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield[2]	October 1746	February 1748	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department	Whig
		Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle	February 1748	16 November 1756	–Secretary of State for the Northern Departmentuntil March 1754–Prime Ministerfrom March 1754	Whig
								Himself
		William Cavendish 4th Duke of Devonshire	16 November 1756	25 June 1757	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself
		Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle	2 July 1757	26 May 1762	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself
		Charles Wyndham 2nd Earl of Egremont[2]	May 1762	21 August 1763	–Secretary of State for the Southern Department			John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute(until April 1763)
								George Grenville(from 16 April 1763)
		George Montagu Dunk 2nd Earl of Halifax[2]	August 1763	July 1765	–Secretary of State for the Southern Department
		Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd Marquess of Rockingham	13 July 1765	30 July 1766	–Prime Minister	Whig (Rockingham)		Himself
		Augustus FitzRoy 3rd Duke of Grafton	1766	28 January 1770	–First Lord of the Treasury –Prime Ministerfrom October 1768	Whig (Chathamite)		William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham(William Pitt the Elder) (until October 1768)
								Himself (from 14 October 1768)
		Thomas Thynne 3rd Viscount Weymouth[2]	January 1770	December 1770	–Secretary of State for the Southern Department			Lord North
		William Nassau de Zuylestein 4th Earl of Rochford[2]	December 1770	November 1775	–Secretary of State for the Southern Department
		Henry Howard 12th Earl of Suffolk[2]	November 1775	6 March 1779	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department
		Thomas Thynne 3rd Viscount Weymouth[2]	March 1779	November 1779	– Secretary of Stateuntil October 1779 -Secretary of State for the Southern Departmentfrom October 1779
		David Murray 7th Viscount Stormont[2]	November 1779	March 1782	–Secretary of State for the Northern Department
		William Petty 2nd Earl of Shelburne	March 1782	April 1783	–Secretary of State for the Home Departmentuntil July 1782 –Prime Ministerfrom July 1782	Whig (Rockingham)		Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham(until 1 July 1782)
								Himself (from 4 July 1782)
		William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke of Portland	2 April 1783	December 1783	–Prime Minister	Whig (Foxite)		Himself (figurehead)
		George Nugent-Temple-Grenville 3rd Earl Temple[3]	December 1783	December 1783	–Home Secretary –Foreign Secretary	–		William Pitt the Younger
		Thomas Townshend 1st Baron Sydney[3]	December 1783	June 1789	–Home Secretary	Whig
		Francis Osborne 5th Duke of Leeds[3]	1789	1790	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Tory
		William Grenville 1st Baron Grenville[3]	November 1790	February 1801	–Secretary of State for the Home Departmentuntil June 1791 –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsfrom June 1791	Tory
		Robert Hobart Baron Hobart[4]	March 1801	October 1801	–Secretary of State for War and the Colonies	Tory		Henry Addington
		Thomas Pelham Baron Pelham[3]	October 1801	August 1803	–Secretary of State for the Home Department	Tory
		Robert Jenkinson Baron Hawkesbury[3]	November 1803	February 1806	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsuntil May 1804 –Secretary of State for the Home Departmentfrom May 1804	Tory
								William Pitt the Younger
		William Grenville 1st Baron Grenville[3]	11 February 1806	March 1807	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself (Ministry of All the Talents)
		Robert Jenkinson 2nd Earl of Liverpool[3] Baron Hawkesburyuntil 1808 Earl of Liverpoolfrom 1808	25 March 1807	April 1827	–Secretary of State for the Home Departmentuntil November 1809 –Secretary of State for War and the ColoniesNovember 1809 – June 1812 –Prime Ministerfrom June 1812	Tory		3rd Duke of Portland
								Spencer Perceval
								Himself
		F. J. Robinson 1st Viscount Goderich[3]	30 April 1827	January 1828	Secretary of State for War and the Coloniesuntil September 1827 –Prime Ministerfrom August 1827	Tory		George Canning
								Himself
		Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington[3]	January 1828	November 1830	–Prime Minister	Tory		Himself
		Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey	22 November 1830	9 July 1834	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself
		William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne	16 July 1834	14 November 1834	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself
		Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington	17 November 1834	8 April 1835	–Prime Ministeruntil December 1834 –Secretary of State for the Home Departmentuntil December 1834 –Secretary of State for War and the Coloniesuntil December 1834 –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Tory		Himself (Caretaker)
								Robert Peel
		William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne	18 April 1835	30 August 1841	–Prime Minister	Whig		Himself
		Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington	3 September 1841	27 June 1846	–Minister without portfolio	Conservative		Robert Peel
		Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne	6 July 1846	21 February 1852	–Lord President of the Council	Whig		Lord John Russell
		Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby	23 February 1852	17 December 1852	–Prime Minister	Conservative		Himself
		George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen	19 December 1852	30 January 1855	–Prime Minister	Peelite		Himself (Coalition)
		Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville	8 February 1855	21 February 1858	–Lord President of the Council	Whig		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
		Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby	21 February 1858	11 June 1859	–Prime Minister	Conservative		Himself
		Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville	18 June 1859	29 October 1865	–Lord President of the Council	Liberal		Viscount Palmerston
		John Russell 1st Earl Russell	29 October 1865	26 June 1866	–Prime Minister	Liberal		Himself
		Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby	28 June 1866	25 February 1868	–Prime Minister	Conservative		Himself
		James Harris 3rd Earl of Malmesbury	27 February 1868	1 December 1868	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative		Benjamin Disraeli
		Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville	9 December 1868	17 February 1874	–Secretary of State for the Coloniesuntil July 1870 –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsfrom July 1870	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
		Charles Gordon-Lennox 6th Duke of Richmond	21 February 1874	21 August 1876	–Lord President of the Council	Conservative		Benjamin Disraeli
		Benjamin Disraeli 1st Earl of Beaconsfield	21 August 1876	21 April 1880	–Prime Minister –Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealfrom August 1876 until February 1878	Conservative
		Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville	28 April 1880	9 June 1885	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	23 June 1885	28 January 1886	–Prime Minister –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Conservative		Himself
		Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville	6 February 1886	20 July 1886	–Secretary of State for the Colonies	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess of Salisbury	25 July 1886	11 August 1892	–Prime Minister –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsfrom January 1887	Conservative		Himself
		John Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley	18 August 1892	5 March 1894	–Lord President of the Council	Liberal		William Ewart Gladstone
		Archibald Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery	5 March 1894	21 June 1895	–Prime Minister	Liberal		Himself
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	25 June 1895	11 July 1902	–Prime Minister –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairsuntil November 1900 –Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealfrom 12 November 1900	Conservative		Himself
		Spencer Cavendish 8th Duke of Devonshire	12 July 1902	13 October 1903	–Lord President of the Council	Liberal Unionist		Arthur Balfour (Conservative)
		Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne	13 October 1903	4 December 1905	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Liberal Unionist
		George Robinson 1st Marquess of Ripon	10 December 1905	14 April 1908	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Liberal		Henry Campbell-Bannerman
		Robert Crewe-Milnes 1st Marquess of Crewe Earl of Creweuntil 1911 Marquess of Crewefrom 1911	14 April 1908	10 December 1916	–Secretary of State for the ColoniesMay 1908– November 1910 –Lord Keeper of the Privy SealOctober 1908 – October 1911; February 1912 – May 1915 –Secretary of State for IndiaNovember 1910 – March 1911; May 1911 – May 1915 –Lord President of the Councilfrom May 1915 –President of the Board of Educationfrom August 1916	Liberal		H. H. Asquith
		George Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Earl Curzon of Kedlestonuntil 1921 Marquess Curzon of Kedlestonfrom 1921	10 December 1916	22 January 1924	–Lord President of the Counciluntil October 1919 –Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs fromOctober 1919	Conservative		David Lloyd George (Liberal)
								Bonar Law
								Stanley Baldwin
		Richard Haldane 1st Viscount Haldane	22 January 1924	3 November 1924	–Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
		George Curzon 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	3 November 1924	20 March 1925	–Lord President of the Council	Conservative		Stanley Baldwin
		James Gascoyne-Cecil 4th Marquess of Salisbury	27 April 1925	4 June 1929	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		Charles Cripps 1st Baron Parmoor	7 June 1929	24 August 1931	–Lord President of the Council	Labour		Ramsay MacDonald
		Rufus Isaacs 1st Marquess of Reading	24 August 1931	5 November 1931	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Liberal		Ramsay MacDonald
		Douglas Hogg 1st Viscount Hailsham	5 November 1931	7 June 1935	–Secretary of State for War	Conservative
		Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart 7th Marquess of Londonderry	7 June 1935	22 November 1935	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative		Stanley Baldwin
		Edward Wood 1st Viscount Halifax	22 November 1935	21 February 1938	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealuntil May 1937 –Lord President of the Councilfrom 28 May 1937	Conservative
								Neville Chamberlain
		James Stanhope 7th Earl Stanhope	21 February 1938	14 May 1940	–President of the Board of Educationuntil October 1938 –First Lord of the AdmiraltyOctober 1938 to September 1939 –Lord President of the CouncilSeptember 1939 to May 1940	Conservative
		Thomas Inskip 1st Viscount Caldecote	14 May 1940	3 October 1940	–Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	Conservative		Winston Churchill
		Edward Wood 1st Viscount Halifax	3 October 1940	22 December 1940	–Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Conservative
		George Lloyd 1st Baron Lloyd	22 December 1940	4 February 1941	–Secretary of State for the Colonies	Conservative
		Walter Guinness 1st Baron Moyne	8 February 1941	21 February 1942	–Secretary of State for the Colonies	Conservative
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Viscount Cranborne	21 February 1942	26 July 1945	–Secretary of State for the Coloniesto November 1942 –Lord Keeper of the Privy SealNovember 1942 to September 1943 –Secretary of State for Dominion AffairsSeptember 1943 to 1945	Conservative
		Christopher Addison 1st Viscount Addison	3 August 1945	26 October 1951	–Secretary of State for Dominion Affairsuntil July 1947 –Secretary of State for Commonwealth RelationsJuly 1947 – October 1947 –Lord Keeper of the Privy SealOctober 1947 – March 1951 –Paymaster GeneralJuly 1948– April 1949 –Lord President of the Councilfrom March 1951	Labour		Clement Attlee
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 5th Marquess of Salisbury	28 October 1951	29 March 1957	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealuntil May 1952 –Secretary of State for Commonwealth RelationsMarch 1952– November 1952 –Lord President of the Councilfrom November 1952	Conservative		Winston Churchill
								Anthony Eden
		Alec Douglas-Home 14th Earl of Home	29 March 1957	27 July 1960	–Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations –Lord President of the Counciluntil September 1957; from October 1959	Conservative		Harold Macmillan
		Quintin Hogg 2nd Viscount Hailsham	27 July 1960	20 October 1963	–Lord President of the Council – Minister for Science	Conservative
		Peter Carington 6th Baron Carrington[5]	20 October 1963	16 October 1964	–Minister without portfolio	Conservative		Alec Douglas-Home
		Frank Pakenham 7th Earl of Longford[5]	18 October 1964	16 January 1968	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealuntil December 1965; from April 1966 –Secretary of State for the ColoniesDecember 1965 – April 1966	Labour		Harold Wilson
		Edward Shackleton Baron Shackleton[5]	16 January 1968	19 June 1970	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealuntil April 1968; from October 1968 –Paymaster GeneralApril 1968 – November 1968	Labour
		George Jellicoe 2nd Earl Jellicoe[5]	20 June 1970	23 May 1973	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative		Edward Heath
		David Hennessy 3rd Baron Windlesham[5]	5 June 1973	4 March 1974	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		Malcolm Shepherd 2nd Baron Shepherd[5]	7 March 1974	10 September 1976	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Labour		Harold Wilson
								James Callaghan
		Fred Peart Baron Peart[5]	10 September 1976	4 May 1979	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Labour
		Christopher Soames Baron Soames[5]	5 May 1979	14 September 1981	–Lord President of the Council	Conservative		Margaret Thatcher
		Janet Young Baroness Young[5]	14 September 1981	11 June 1983	–Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasteruntil April 1982 –Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealfrom April 1982	Conservative
		William Whitelaw 1st Viscount Whitelaw[5]	11 June 1983	10 January 1988	–Lord President of the Council	Conservative
		John Ganzoni 2nd Baron Belstead[5]	10 January 1988	28 November 1990	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		David Waddington Baron Waddington[5]	28 November 1990	11 April 1992	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative		John Major
		John Wakeham Baron Wakeham[5]	11 April 1992	20 July 1994	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Viscount Cranborne[5]	20 July 1994	2 May 1997	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		Ivor Richard Baron Richard[5]	2 May 1997	27 July 1998	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Labour		Tony Blair
		Margaret Jay Baroness Jay of Paddington[5]	27 July 1998	8 June 2001	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal –Minister for Women	Labour
		Gareth Williams Baron Williams of Mostyn[5]	8 June 2001	20 September 2003	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Sealuntil June 2003 –Lord President of the Councilfrom June 2003	Labour
		Valerie Amos Baroness Amos[5]	6 October 2003	27 June 2007	–Lord President of the Council	Labour
		Catherine Ashton Baroness Ashton of Upholland[5]	28 June 2007	2 October 2008	–Lord President of the Council	Labour		Gordon Brown
		Janet Royall Baroness Royall of Blaisdon[5]	2 October 2008	11 May 2010	–Lord President of the Counciluntil June 2009 –Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancasterfrom June 2009	Labour
		Thomas Galbraith 2nd Baron Strathclyde[5]	12 May 2010	7 January 2013	–Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Conservative		David Cameron
		Jonathan Hill Baron Hill of Oareford[5]	7 January 2013	15 July 2014	–Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Conservative
		Tina Stowell Baroness Stowell of Beeston[5]	15 July 2014	14 July 2016	–Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal	Conservative
		Natalie Evans Baroness Evans of Bowes Park[5]	14 July 2016	6 September 2022		Conservative		Theresa May
								Boris Johnson
		Nicholas True Baron True[6]	6 September 2022	5 July 2024		Conservative		Liz Truss
								Rishi Sunak
		Angela Smith Baroness Smith of Basildon	5 July 2024	Incumbent		Labour		Keir Starmer

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