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The (parliamentary) Official Opposition during the war edit
I'm not sure where the best place to put info about this topic on Wikipedia would be (probably not notable enough for a standalone article), but I figured that a section on this article with a brief outline about the state of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition during the war might be worth considering adding here (after all, it's something that people probably would find mildly interesting). However, with the minimal information I have worked out about it so far, there's probably not enough for me to meaningfully make a start on this hypothetical section just yet, so I'm discussing it here in case anyone wants to chip in.
It appears that the Leaders of the Opposition during the war were all part of Labour, with the chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party (starting with Hastings Lees-Smith) being given this role, to allow the procedural 'parliamentary rules were written under the assumption that there was a parliamentary opposition with a leader of the opposition to do the things' to continue. With this role (and the seat of the speaker) accounted for, it appears that there were 9 (or 10 if the leader's seat was miscounted as part of the coalition within the infobox) seats of actual 'opposition' - 3 of which being the Independent Labour Party - so who were the other opposition parties, and what oppositioning did they actually do? 🔥HOTm̵̟͆e̷̜̓s̵̼̊s̸̜̃🔥 (talk・edits) 23:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)