Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1976–88

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Members of the British Liberal Party's Frontbench Team from 1976 to 1988 (leaderships listed chronologically):

Party Spokesmen under David Steel's First Parliament July 1976–April 1977[]

David Steel: Party Leader
John Pardoe: Deputy Leader and Chief Treasury Spokesman
Jeremy Thorpe: Foreign Affairs
Emlyn Hooson: Home Affairs
Cyril Smith: Chief Whip
Clement Freud: Northern Ireland Spokesman
Lord Kimberley: Aviation Spokesman

Party Spokesmen under David Steel's First Parliament April 1977–May 1979[]

David Steel: Party Leader
John Pardoe: Deputy Leader and Chief Treasury Spokesman
Jeremy Thorpe: Foreign Affairs
Cyril Smith: Employment
Alan Beith: Chief Whip
Clement Freud: Northern Ireland, Broadcasting and the Arts
Lord Kimberley: Aviation Spokesman

Liberal Party (UK)

Leadership

Leaders in the House of Commons (1859–1916)	Palmerston (1859–65) Gladstone (1865–75) Hartington (1875–80) Gladstone (1880–94) Rosebery (1894–96) Harcourt (1896–98) Campbell-Bannerman (1899–1908) Asquith (1908–16)
Leaders in the House of Lords (1859–1916)	Granville (1859–65) Russell (1865–68) Granville (1868–91) Kimberley (1891–94) Rosebery (1894–96) Kimberley (1896–1902) Spencer (1902–05) Ripon (1905–08) Crewe (1908–23)
Overall Leaders (1916–88)	Asquith (1916–26) Maclean (interim) (1918–20) Lloyd George (1926–31) Samuel (1931–35) Sinclair (1935–45) Davies (1945–56) Grimond (1956–67) Thorpe (1967–76) Grimond (1976) Steel (1976–88)

Deputy Leaders

Samuel (1929–31)
Sinclair (1931–35)
Harris (1940–45)
vacant (1945–49)
M Lloyd George (1949–51)
vacant (1951–62)
Wade (1962–64)
vacant (1964–76)
Pardoe (1976-79)
vacant (1979-85)
Beith (1985–88)

Leaders in the Lords (1916–88)

Crewe (1908–23)
Grey (1923–24)
Beauchamp (1924–31)
Reading (1931–36)
Crewe (1936–44)
Samuel (1944–55)
Rea (1955–67)
Byers (1967–84)
Seear (1984–88)

Leadership elections
1967 (Thorpe) 1976 (Steel)

Governments

Single party Liberal governments	First Gladstone ministry (1868–74) Second Gladstone ministry (1880–85) Third Gladstone ministry (1886) Fourth Gladstone ministry (1892–94) Rosebery ministry (1894–95) Campbell-Bannerman ministry (1905–08) First Asquith ministry (1908–15)
Liberal-led coalitions	Asquith coalition ministry (1915–16) Lloyd George ministry (1916–22)
Coalitions with Liberal ministers	First National Government (1931) Second National Government (1931-1932) Churchill war ministry (1940–45)

Structure

Parliamentarians	Members of Parliament Chief Whip
Frontbench	Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1945–56 Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1956–67 Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1967–76 Liberal Party Frontbench Team, 1976–88
State parties	National Liberal Federation Scottish Liberal Party Welsh Liberal Party
Conference	Liberal Assembly
SAOs	National League of Young Liberals Union of Liberal Students Women's Liberal Federation

Related organisations
Brooks's National Liberal Club Reform Club Social Democratic Party (1981-1988) SDP–Liberal Alliance (1981–1988) Ulster Liberal Party (1956–1987) Liberal Democrats (1988-present)

History and related topics
Liberal Imperialists Coalition Government: Coalition Coupon in Government Independent Liberal Party (UK, 1918) in Opposition National Government: Independent Liberals (UK, 1931) in Opposition General election manifestos Glee Club The Land Lib–Lab pact Liberator One more heave Peelites Radical Action Radical Reform Group Whig Party

Breakaway parties
Liberal Unionist Party (Spencer Cavendish) National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) (David Lloyd George) National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) ("Simonites") Liberal Party (UK, 1989) (Michael Meadowcroft)

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