Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt Chauley bringing you a special festive delights.

Patrick McGarry back with daily episodes of the podcast from January 2nd,

I'll be back on the 9th. But until then, we're going to be dropping our leader of the

opposition feature in your timetables every day. In 2021, we rounded up every Prime Minister

with Andrew Jimson and in 2022. Nigel Fletcher from the Centre for Opposition Studies

has been telling us about every leader of the opposition who crucially never made it

to number 10, from Charles James Foxx all the way through to Kier Starmer.

So let's get on with it then, hit the montage.

First up, it's Grandville Leverson Gower, second Earl of Grandville,

who was leader of the opposition in the House of Lords. No fewer than five times.

He was a long-serving leader of the Liberal Party in the Lords and his times in opposition,

they're spandors of total of 33 years, so he's quite a significant figure. Another

aristocrat we're back to sort of eating an Oxford as his background relates to most of the

some of the individuality. No, exactly, we're back to that. And he was then elected as a lot of them

and first of all to the House of Commons where he sat for 10 years from 1836 until his father died

and he went to the Lords. And during the period he was in the Commons, he was known as Lord

Leverson, which might put a chill down the spine of certain people in the media.

He also picked up a nickname, which is perhaps relevant to your use of the, are you being served

theme music? He was called Pussy, as in Pussy Gat for some reason, which I'm

able to establish, but given what you've just said about cats, perhaps that biases you against him,

so I don't know what to allow. He served briefly in the foreign office in Lord Melbourne's

government and then he went to House of Lords and at the time the weeks were in government,

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