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We round it up every Prime Minister with Andrew Jimson and in 2022, Nigel Fletcher from the

centre of opposition studies has been telling us about every leave of the opposition who

crucially never made it to number 10, from Charles James Fox all the way through to Keir

Starmer, so let's get on with it then, hit the button, Charles.

We've got Sir Edward Carson who is the first of the leaders on our list who have taken

the job after what we were talking about a couple of weeks ago, the 1911 Parliament Act,

which is what curved the power of the lords and so from here on the commons is the preeminent

house.

And he was lead to the opposition for just over a year between October 1915 and December

of the following year, 1916, and that was a course during the First World War, so it's

rather unusual circumstances and the first unusual thing is that he wasn't the leader

of one of the major parties.

He was actually an Irish unionist MP and a major figure in the politics of Northern Ireland.

This was during a period where the issue over Irish home rule and then the partition of

Ireland later on took place.

And if you go to Stormont now, there's a huge statue of him outside Parliament buildings

there marking his contribution as a leader of the Ulster Unionist, so he's a very significant

figure in both Irish politics and Northern Irish politics.

And that's really where his reputation comes from.

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