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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

So recently I was thinking about A Very British Coup and the Friends of Harry Perkins and how it would work with ‘real life’ people. Like how do you get to that scenario. So I made a list...and I realised how weird the A Very British Coup Universe is. According to the story, despite having a Hard Left Wing PM in 1988, Brexit and New Labour still happen. So I made two lists, one inspired by A Very British Coup and the Friends of Harry Perkins and one that just takes inspiration from A Very British Coup and spins off in its own direction. Enjoy:

A Very British Coup Version 1:
1979-1985: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)

1979 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Harry West (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP)
1983 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel-David Owen (Liberal-SDP Alliance), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)

1985-1988: Francis Pym (Conservative)
1985 (Coalition with SDP) def: Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel-Bob Maclennan (Liberal-Democratic Alliance), David Owen (SDP), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
1988-1989: Dennis Skinner (Labour)
1988 (Majority) def: Francis Pym (Conservative), Bob Maclennan (Social Liberal), David Owen (SDP), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP), Norman Tebbitt (National)
1989-1992: Jack Cunningham (Labour)
1992-1997: Ken Clarke (Conservative)
1992 (Coalition with SDP) def: Jack Cunningham (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Social Liberal), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
1997-2006: Geoff Hoon (Labour)
1997 (Majority) def: Ken Clarke (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Social Liberal), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru),David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
2001 (Majority) def: Micheal Portillo (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Social Liberal), Sue Slipman (SDP), Alex Salmond (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru),David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
2005 (Coalition with Soc Libs) def: Oliver Letwin (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Social Liberal), Sue Slipman (SDP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Dafydd Iwan (Plaid Cymru), David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Mark Dunken (SDLP)

2006-2010: Nick Brown (Labour-Soc Lib Coalition)
2010-2016: Oliver Letwin (Conservative)

2010 (Coalition with Soc Libs) def: Nick Brown (Labour), Vince Cable (Social Liberal), Mike Gapes (SDP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Dafydd Iwan (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP),Mark Dunken (SDLP)
2015 (Majority) def: Owen Smith (Labour), Vince Cable (Social Liberal), Mike Gapes (SDP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP),Mark Dunken (SDLP)

2016-2019: Anna Sobury (Conservative)
2017 (Coalition with DUP) def: Jon Trickett (Labour), Ed Davey (Social Liberal), Rachel Reeves (SDP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP), Claire Hanna (SDLP)
2019-2025: Micheal Gove (Conservative)
2019 (Coalition with DUP) def: Jon Trickett (Labour), Tim Farron (Social Liberal), Rachel Reeves (SDP), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP),Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Tom Elliott (UUP), Sammy Wilson (DUP), Claire Hanna (SDLP)
2023 (Coalition with Unionist) def: Emma Hardy (Labour), Tim Farron (Social Liberal), Ellie Reeves (SDP), Joanna Cherry (SNP), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Sammy Wilson (Unionist), Claire Hanna (SDLP)

2025: Clive Lewis (Labour)†
2025 (Majority) def: Micheal Gove (Conservative), Munria Wilson (Social Liberal), Ellie Reeves (SDP), Joanna Cherry (SNP), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Sammy Wilson (Unionist), Claire Hanna (SDLP)
2025-: Rachel Maskell (Labour)

A Very British Coup Version 2:
1979-1985: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru),Harry West (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP)
1983 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel-David Owen (Liberal-SDP Alliance), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)

1985-1988: Francis Pym (Conservative)
1985 (Coalition with SDP) def: Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel-Bob Maclennan (Liberal-Democratic Alliance), David Owen (SDP), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
1988-1989: Dennis Skinner (Labour)
1988 (Majority) def: Francis Pym (Conservative), Bob Maclennan (Social Liberal), David Owen (SDP), Gordon Wilson (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
1989-1990: Jack Cunningham (Labour Caretaker)
1990-1996: Bryan Gould (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def: Micheal Heseltine (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Social Liberal), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP), Norman Tebbitt ('National' Conservative)
1994 (Coalition with SDP) def: Malcolm Rifikind (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Social Liberal), Rosie Barnes (SDP), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyneaux (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)

1996-2002: Micheal Portillo (Conservative)
1996 (Majority) def: Bryan Gould (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Social Liberal), Frank Field (SDP), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)
1999 (Majority) def: Robin Cook (Labour), Simon Hughes (Social Liberal), Jim Murphy (SDP), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP)

2002-2008: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
2002 (Majority) def: Micheal Portillo (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Social Liberal), Jim Murphy (SDP), Alex Neil (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), David Trimble (UUP), Ian Paisley (DUP), John Hume (SDLP), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Reform)
2006 (Majority) def: Dominic Grieve (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Social Liberal), Ivan Lewis (SDP), Alex Neil (SNP), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP),Mark Dunken (SDLP), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Reform)

2008-2014: Theresa May (Conservative)
2008 (Coalition with SDP) def: Margaret Beckett (Labour), Sue Kramer (Social Liberal), Ivan Lewis (SDP),Alex Neil (SNP), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP),Mark Dunken (SDLP), Robert Kilroy Silk (Reform), Paul Nuttall (National)
2013 (Coalition with SDP & DUP) def: Katy Clark (Labour), Sue Kramer (Social Liberal), Liz Kendall (SDP), Stewart Hosie (SNP), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP), Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP), Anne Marie Waters (Reform), Paul Nuttall (National)
2014-2024: Katy Clark (Labour)
2014 (Majority) def: Theresa May (Conservative), Sue Kramer (Social Liberal), Liz Kendall (SDP), Angela Constance (SNP), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Peter Robinson (DUP), Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP), Anne Marie Waters (Reform), Paul Nuttall (National)

2018 (Majority) def: Rory Stewart (Conservative), Caroline Pidgeon (Social Liberal), Liz Kendall (SDP), Angela Constance (SNP), Liz Saville Robert (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Ian Paisley Jr. (DUP), Claire Hanna (SDLP), Gered Batten (National Reform)
2022 (Majority) def: Heidi Allen (Conservative), Caroline Pidgeon (Social Liberal), Chuka Umunna (SDP),Angela Constance (SNP), Liz Saville Robert (Plaid Cymru), Sylvia Hermon (UUP), Ian Paisley Jr. (DUP), Claire Hanna (SDLP), Annunziata Rees-Mogg (National Reform)
2024-: Tulip Siddiq (Labour)

The POD for both of theses is Micheal Foot abruptly dying in early 1982 (not impossible, he was a rather frail man)/a poor performance in the 1983 Darlington by-election (pick your poison) causing Healey to takeover. He weathers two elections but fails to become PM, setting the stage for Denis Skinner becoming leader and a SCG takeover. Things spiral from there. Also Thatcher gets screwed in an Alt-Westland causing her to resign and be replaced by Francis Pym.
 
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So recently I was thinking about A Very British Coup and the Friends of Harry Perkins and how it would work with ‘real life’ people. Like how do you get to that scenario. So I made a list...and I realised how weird the A Very British Coup Universe is. According to the story, despite having a Hard Left Wing PM in 1988, Brexit and New Labour still happen.
I'm a big of A Very British Coup but I was quite disappointed by The Friends of Harry Perkins for exactly the reasons you've said there; it feels like Perkins didn't happen and it seems to take place back into OTL but with other mentions about Labour not being in government since Perkins' day either. The continuity issues really frustrated me as someone who was a big fan of the original book.

If you wanted a PoD that wasn't rooted in my dear Michael's death, there's always a poor performance in the 1983 Darlington by-election. I believe that @AlfieJ started a TL about Foot resigning the leadership following a Labour loss there, which was on the cards at the time.

Just a side question really that I've been meaning to ask; why the preference for the Liberal Democrats becoming the Social Liberals instead in a lot of your lists?
 
I'm a big of A Very British Coup but I was quite disappointed by The Friends of Harry Perkins for exactly the reasons you've said there; it feels like Perkins didn't happen and it seems to take place back into OTL but with other mentions about Labour not being in government since Perkins' day either. The continuity issues really frustrated me as someone who was a big fan of the original book.
It was an odd one, references to New Labour happening but also not and just weird stuff like that. It’s odd that in a world that had Perkins, Brexit and Trump still happen. It’s an odd one. I still like The Friends of Harry Perkins but it would have worked better as it’s own thing (at least Chris Mullin admits at the start that his new work is odd but he just wanted to do a Brexit based one).
If you wanted a PoD that wasn't rooted in my dear Michael's death, there's always a poor performance in the 1983 Darlington by-election. I believe that @AlfieJ started a TL about Foot resigning the leadership following a Labour loss there, which was on the cards at the time.
That’s a good one, either one could be the POD for the two lists in question. Just wanted a way for the Left to still have a say in a world where Thatcher existed and so having Foot bounce before the ‘83 election means the Left Wing and it’s manifesto aren’t blamed as a result.

In other things Skinner was chosen because he’s probably the closest in real life we have to a Harry Perkins style figure and I could see him be a better figure for Labour’s Left to coalesce around post Foot (Benn has too much baggage).
Just a side question really that I've been meaning to ask; why the preference for the Liberal Democrats becoming the Social Liberals instead in a lot of your lists?
Not sure, I remember reading that was a possible name for them and I like it (also I find it mildly humorous). Also it’s always a nice indicator that this world is rather different than our own.

Also quick question, which list would you prefer? Version 1 or 2.
 
It was an odd one, references to New Labour happening but also not and just weird stuff like that. It’s odd that in a world that had Perkins, Brexit and Trump still happen. It’s an odd one. I still like The Friends of Harry Perkins but it would have worked better as it’s own thing (at least Chris Mullin admits at the start that his new work is odd but he just wanted to do a Brexit based one).
The fact that it contradicts itself during the book was a particular peeve of mine. It forgets its own history during the story itself. It's disappointing really though the fact that Mullin admits this doesn't necessarily make it better; it's an admission it's not perfect and it's flawed but not in those ways.

That’s a good one, either one could be the POD for the two lists in question. Just wanted a way for the Left to still have a say in a world where Thatcher existed and so having Foot bounce before the ‘83 election means the Left Wing and it’s manifesto aren’t blamed as a result.
I'm always very protective of Michael really, so it's one of those moments I'd like to see him not die. :p

In other things Skinner was chosen because he’s probably the closest in real life we have to a Harry Perkins style figure and I could see him be a better figure for Labour’s Left to coalesce around post Foot (Benn has too much baggage).
Wasn't one of the things about Perkins was that he was a cabinet minister before resigning on principle though? Benn may have too much baggage but he was also the clearest basis for the character, even the Energy Secretary appointment for that matter. The background was a clear divergence between the two. Eric Heffer might fit the bill closer for left-wing, government/cabinet experience, working-class background.

Not sure, I remember reading that was a possible name for them and I like it (also I find it mildly humorous). Also it’s always a nice indicator that this world is rather different than our own.
That's fair enough. I just noticed that it seemed to be your go-to for them a lot of the time so thought to ask really. :p

Also quick question, which list would you prefer? Version 1 or 2.
I think I'd lean more towards Ver. 1, although I do like both of them for the record.
 
The fact that it contradicts itself during the book was a particular peeve of mine. It forgets its own history during the story itself. It's disappointing really though the fact that Mullin admits this doesn't necessarily make it better; it's an admission it's not perfect and it's flawed but not in those ways.
Yeah, it’s a shame that Mullin got sloppy. He’s a good writer otherwise.
I'm always very protective of Michael really, so it's one of those moments I'd like to see him not die. :p
Understandable, Michael is certainly someone you wouldn’t want to see die. Though given how he was nearly 100 when he died I’m sure ATL’s can kill him off earlier.
Wasn't one of the things about Perkins was that he was a cabinet minister before resigning on principle though? Benn may have too much baggage but he was also the clearest basis for the character, even the Energy Secretary appointment for that matter. The background was a clear divergence between the two. Eric Heffer might fit the bill closer for left-wing, government/cabinet experience, working-class background.
True Heffer could work (though Skinner’s Derbyshire charm is closer to Perkin’s Yorkshire charm over Heffer’s grumpy Liverpool ways, also he’s not the fittest lad by the late 80s), I’ll put him in the back pocket for a later date (if I ever want to do another one of theses because I hate my self it seems). I do remember reading that Skinner was considered for a cabinet position in Otl in the Callaghan Cabinet so maybe in these lists Skinner takes the offer but quickly resigns out principle (because Skinner would definitely do that).
That's fair enough. I just noticed that it seemed to be your go-to for them a lot of the time so thought to ask really.
It’s alright, I have my habits. Though not my favourite Lib Dem’s name reimagining (my favourite is probably Progressive Democrats I believe from list I did a bit ago).
I think I'd lean more towards Ver. 1, although I do like both of them for the record
Thanks, Version 1 was me trying find how to awkwardly shoe horn both stories so they make sense. Geoff Hoon as New Labour man and Emma Hardy as Labour’s first female leader are probably my favourite picks I’ve done due to that pressure.

Version 2 was fun too but mainly in a ‘Let’s give A Very British Coup a belated happy ending’ way.
 
Going into the Future with a Compass: A Future PM’s list

2019-2027: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat), Nigel Farage (Brexit), Johnathan Bartley-Siân Berry (Green Party)
2024 (Majority) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Ed Davey (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Reform), George Galloway (Workers Party of Britain), Siân Berry (Green Party)

2027: Matt Hancock (Conservative)
2027-2031: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2027 (Majority) def: Matt Hancock (Conservative), Munira Wilson (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Reform), George Galloway (Workers), Caroline Lucas-Siân Berry (Green Party)
2031-2035: Priti Patel (Conservative)
2031 (Coalition with Reform) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Munira Wilson (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Reform), Katt Cremer (Workers), Magid Magid (Green Party)
2035-2044: Angela Rayner (Labour)
2035 (Majority) def: Priti Patel (Conservative), Layla Moran (Lib Dem), Annunziata Rees-Mogg (Reform), Katt Cremer (Workers), Magid Magid-Talia Woodin (Green Party)
2039 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservative), Layla Moran (Lib Dem), Annunziata Rees-Mogg (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers), Magid Magid-Talia Woodin (Green Party)

2044-2048: Elliot Colburn (Conservative)
2044 (Coalition with Reform) def: Angela Rayner (Labour), Layla Moran (Lib Dem), Alexandra Philips (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers),Tamsin Omond-Talia Woodin (Green Party), Elizabeth Hayden-Ash Sarkar-Grace Blakeley (Momentum)
2048-2056: Katharine Macy-Beth Desmond(Progressive Alliance)
2048 (Progressive Alliance Coalition) def: Elliot Colburn (Conservative), Beth Desmond (Labour), Katharine Macy (Lib Dem), Alexandra Philips (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers), Tasmin Omond-Talia Woodin (Green Party), Elizabeth Hayden-Ash Sarkar-Grace Blakeley (Momentum)
2052 (Progressive Alliance Coalition) def: Brendan Clarke-Smith (Conservative), Beth Desmond-Nadia Whittome (Labour), Katharine Macy (Lib Dem), Alexandra Philips (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers), Talia Woodin (Green Party)
2056-:Arthur Webber (Labour)
2056 (Majority) def: Lucy Harris (Conservative), Katharine Macy (Lib Dem), Alexandra Philips (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers), Talia Woodin (Green Party)

(British parties in general because I don’t want to be writing down half dozen National/Unionist parties again)

Happy to answer questions about this world and how we got here, I prefer doing that over doing a big block of text sometimes.
 
What happened to the SNP?
Sturgeon steps down in 2021 and Joanna Cherry takes over as the wheels fall off the SNP machine. Cherry manages to anger the Progressive Wing and the Fundamentalist Wing by continuing the Gradualist approach combined with an agenda that includes laws that actively discriminate against Trans people.

Mhairi Black splits to form a ‘Progressive’ Scottish Nationalist Party (mainly a bunch of former SSPers and SNP Leftists) whilst Joanna Cherry spends much of her leadership putting out Fundamentalist coups. But still Labour gets in and enough time has passed that a Referendum is conducted and...Scotland still stays in by decent sized margin.

As a result the SNP looks foolish and collapses. It still exists as a rump force in Scottish politics but it’s squeezed by the Scottish Freedom Party (a bunch of pissed of Fundamentalists who want to do a Catalonia with Scotland) and the Scottish Progressive Party lead by Mhairi Black and is doing well in the vacuum left by Scottish Labour’s awkward collapse (it’s still partially around but mainly consists of a couple of Parliamentary seats and Scottish Parliament Seats).

Voting reform to a PR system by the Progressive Alliance has allowed the other Nationalist parties even greater freedom to expand as the SNP declines in stature (though Huzma Yousaf has managed to right the ship somewhat).
 
One thing I don’t get about these future lists is how the Conservatives survive past 2040 with the generational collapse they’ve set out for themselves. All of them I’ve read are great work but I suppose this is a suspension of disbelief thing.
 
One thing I don’t get about these future lists is how the Conservatives survive past 2040 with the generational collapse they’ve set out for themselves. All of them I’ve read are great work but I suppose this is a suspension of disbelief thing.
Has any prediction like that ever come true though?
 
One thing I don’t get about these future lists is how the Conservatives survive past 2040 with the generational collapse they’ve set out for themselves. All of them I’ve read are great work but I suppose this is a suspension of disbelief thing.
I think they'll always be a Centre Right party of some kind in British politics and until there is a logical alternative the Conservatives fit that void. I think the Conservatives could survive past 2040, though with numerous rebrandings, coalitions with Right Wing Populist parties and all that jazz. I could see the Conservatives existing as a rump party by the 2040s but still existing in some way.
 
One thing I don’t get about these future lists is how the Conservatives survive past 2040 with the generational collapse they’ve set out for themselves. All of them I’ve read are great work but I suppose this is a suspension of disbelief thing.

Right, because it's not like people's politics change as they get older or that current trends themselves are subject to change, is it?

Labour has had a dominant vote share with young voters since the '92 election. That's nearly thirty years ago now, and we currently have a Conservative government with a healthy majority. The Tories were also beating Labour in the eighties amongst under twenty-fours and then... that changed.
 
One thing I don’t get about these future lists is how the Conservatives survive past 2040 with the generational collapse they’ve set out for themselves. All of them I’ve read are great work but I suppose this is a suspension of disbelief thing.

Because people change, and so do the parties themselves.

TBH, outside of personality-based parties, I don’t see any major party seeing any sort of seismic collapse. I could definitely be wrong about that, but I will only believe there is some sort of major party collapse when I see it.
 
To be honest, I assume loads of millennials and then Gen Z are going to vote Tory as they get older despite not liking them in youth - just as previous generations had - as the other side becomes strange and confusing to them (and also as more get property).

But people don’t become more conservative as they grow older. The vast majority of people form their political opinions while they are in their twenties.

Right, because it's not like people's politics change as they get older or that current trends themselves are subject to change, is it?

Labour has had a dominant vote share with young voters since the '92 election. That's nearly thirty years ago now, and we currently have a Conservative government with a healthy majority. The Tories were also beating Labour in the eighties amongst under twenty-fours and then... that changed.
Current trends can change, but they don’t change for no reason at all. The Conservatives won only 3% less among 18 to 24-year-olds than their national average in 1997. In 2019, they won 26% less. They beat Labour in the eighties, yes, but that was still give or take a few points in line with their national average.
 
The vast majority of people form their political opinions while they are in their twenties.

Even assuming this is true, it clearly has no relevance in terms of general election outcomes. If it did, given the relative likelihood to turn out by age, elections would just be a series of repeats. It's clearly the case that the voting of generations does not stay static as they grow older. We know that in the last decade particularly there's been a significant amount of switching between elections.

By my reckoning, some of the over sixty-fives who went overwhelmingly Tory last year must have been voting for Harold Wilson by something like twenty points.

The last few years are very bad to draw anything from even on static politics assumptions incidentally, given the level of tactical and protest voting for Labour around the Brexit issue. Given the turnout rate among younger voters, it's also not very useful as a predictor of later generational behaviour even on static assumptions.
 
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this started off as 'what if the left split from labour in the 1980s rather than the right' and it became 'a very european party system'

1976-1985: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1978 (Minority, with Liberal confidence and supply) def. Ted Heath (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (Scottish National), Harry West (Ulster Unionist), John Tyndall (National Front)
1983 (Majority) def. Willie Whitelaw (Conservative), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National), David Steel (Liberal), Jim Molyneaux (Ulster Unionist), John Tyndall (National Front)

1985-1986: Roy Jenkins (Democratic-Liberal coalition)
1986-1994: David Owen (Democratic)
1988 (Grand Coalition with Conservatives) def. Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Eric Heffer / Sara Parkin (People's Alliance - Socialist Labour, Greens), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National), Jim Molyneaux (Ulster Unionist), David Steel (Liberal), John Tyndall (National Front)
1992 Maastricht Treaty referendum; 53% NO, 47% YES
1993 (Grand Coalition with Conservatives) def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Teresa Gorman (Freedom Front), Margaret Beckett / Derek Wall (Alliance For Green Socialism), Jim Molyneaux (Ulster Unionist), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National)
1993 Maastricht Treaty referendum; 51% YES, 49% NO

1994-1998: Tony Blair (Democratic-Conservative Grand Coalition)
1998-2005: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)
1998 (Coalition with Freedom Front) def. Tony Blair (Democratic), Jimmy Goldsmith (Freedom Front), Derek Wall (Alliance For Green Socialism), John Taylor (Ulster Unionist), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National)
2000 (Majority) def. Peter Mandelson (Democratic), Roger Knapman (Freedom Front), Derek Wall (Alliance 2000: The Greens And The Reds), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National), John Taylor (Ulster Unionist)

2005-2017: Peter Mandelson (Democratic)
2005 (Grand Coalition with Conservatives) def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Margaret Beckett (Red-Green Alliance), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Freedom Front), Tim Collins (Unionist), Fergus Ewing (Scottish National)
2010 (Grand Coalition with Conservatives) def. Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Freedom Front), Tim Collins (Unionist), Margaret Beckett (Red-Green Alliance), Fergus Ewing (Scottish National)
2015 (Grand Coalition with Conservatives) def. Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative), Robert Kilroy-Silk (National Union), Ted Miliband (United Left), Fergus Ewing (Scottish National)

2017-2019: Chris Leslie (Democratic-Conservative Grand Coalition)
2019-2024: Daniel Kawcynski (Conservative)
2019 (Coalition with National Union) def. Chris Leslie (Democratic), Ian Paisley Jr. (National Union), Ted Miliband (United Left), Fergus Ewing (Scottish National)
 
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