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Hello, this is the WebBox podcast. I'm Matt Charlie bringing you a special festive delights.

Patrick McGarry back with daily episodes of the podcast from Janie the Second.

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

of the opposition feature in your time routes 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 lead 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 montage.

First up on today's episode it's Herbert Morrison. So after quite a run of pub quiz questions where

they weren't exactly household names. We've got one of the giants of the Labour Party of the

mid-20th century Herbert Morrison who amongst other things is also Peter Mandelson's grandfather

and there was some interesting parallels between their careers which I'll come onto in a minute.

But he was a huge figure in Labour history and so he technically does qualify to be a lead

of the opposition because he was for a few weeks in December 1955 the acting lead of the opposition.

He succeeded climate aptly very briefly because aptly went straight to the House of Lords and so

I've checked the record you can't always walk on Wikipedia who said that he was acting leader during

the leadership contest and it's actually true that aptly left the House of Commons and went to

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