Labour Chief Whip

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This is a list of those people who have served as Chief Whip of the Labour Party in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

House of Commons [edit]

Year	Name	Constituency
1906	David Shackleton	Clitheroe
1906	Arthur Henderson	Barnard Castle
1907	George Roberts	Norwich
1914	Arthur Henderson	Barnard Castle
1914	Frank Goldstone	Sunderland
1916	George Roberts	Norwich
1919	William Tyson Wilson	Westhoughton
1920	Arthur Henderson	Widnes
1924	Benjamin Spoor	Bishop Auckland
1925	Arthur Henderson	Burnley
1927	Thomas Kennedy	Kirkcaldy Burghs
1931	Charles Edwards	Bedwellty
1942	William Whiteley	Blaydon
1955	Herbert Bowden	Leicester South West
1964	Edward Short	Newcastle upon Tyne
1966	John Silkin	Deptford
1969	Robert Mellish	Bermondsey
1976	Michael Cocks	Bristol South
1985	Derek Foster	Bishop Auckland
1995	Donald Dewar	Glasgow Garscadden
1997	Nick Brown	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
1998	Ann Taylor	Dewsbury
2001	Hilary Armstrong	Durham North West
2006	Jacqui Smith	Redditch
2007	Geoff Hoon	Ashfield
2008	Nick Brown	Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
2010	Rosie Winterton	Doncaster Central

Chris Cook and Brendan Keith, British Historical Facts 1830-1900, Macmillan, 1975
David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth-Century British Historical Facts 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2000

Leadership

Leaders	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Gaitskell Brown (acting) Wilson Callaghan Foot Kinnock Smith Beckett (acting) Blair Brown Harman (acting) Miliband

Deputy Leaders	Clynes Graham Attlee Greenwood Morrison Griffiths Bevan Brown Jenkins Short Foot Healey Hattersley Beckett Prescott Harman

General Secretaries	MacDonald Henderson Middleton Phillips Williams Nicholas Hayward Mortimer Whitty Sawyer McDonagh Triesman Carter Watt Collins McNicol

Treasurers	Henderson MacDonald Henderson Lathan Greenwood Gaitskell Bevan Nicholas Davies Callaghan Atkinson Varley Booth McCluskie Burlison Prosser Elsby Dromey Holland

Leaders (Lords)	Haldane Cripps Ponsonby Snell Addison Jowitt Alexander Pakenham Shackleton Shepherd Peart Hughes Richard Jay Williams Amos Ashton Royall

PLP Chairs	Hardie Henderson Barnes MacDonald Henderson Hodge* Wardle* Adamson Clynes MacDonald Henderson Lansbury Attlee Lees-Smith* Pethick-Lawrence* Greenwood* Gaitskell Wilson Houghton Mikardo Hughes Willey Dormand Orme Hoyle Soley Corston Clwyd Lloyd Watts

Internal elections

Leadership elections	1922 (MacDonald) 1935 (Attlee) 1955 (Gaitskell) 1960 1961 1963 (Wilson) 1976 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1983 (Kinnock) 1988 1992 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 2007 (Brown) 2010 (Miliband)

Deputy Leadership elections	1972 (Short) 1976 (Foot) 1980 (Healey) 1981 1983 (Hattersley) 1988 1992 (Beckett) 1994 (Prescott) 2007 (Harman)

Shadow Cabinet elections	1979 (Callaghan) 1980 (Foot) 1981 (Foot) ... 1992 (Smith) 1993 (Smith) 1994 (Blair) 1995 (Blair) 1996 (Blair) 2010 (Miliband)

Organisation

Constitution and structure	Constitution Rule book Constituency Labour Parties Affiliated trade unions Socialist societies Parliamentary Labour Party National Executive Committee Labour Party Conference National Policy Forum Clause IV General Secretary Treasurer European Parliamentary Labour Party Labour Chief Whip

Related organisations	Affiliated trade union Christian Socialist Movement Compass Co-operative Party Fabian Society Grassroots Alliance Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform Labour CND Labour Friends of Israel Labour Party Irish Society Labour Representation Committee (2004) Labour Students LGBT Labour LabourList National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs Progress Scottish Labour Party Socialist Appeal Socialist Education Association SERA Socialist Campaign Group Socialist Youth Network Tribune Welsh Labour Young Labour

History and related topics	History of the Labour Party (UK) History of socialism in Great Britain Lib–Lab pact New Labour Tony's Cronies

* = wartime, in opposition