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Tim Bale
Leading a party which has lost office and is seeking to regain it is no easy task. Nor is judging how well the man or woman charged with that task is doing the job: while political scientists have developed criteria for evaluating prime ministers, there is less work on leaders of the opposition. This article uses historical work which looks at those opposition parties that have successfully recovered power and derives from it criteria with which to measure the performance of leaders of the opposition. When applied to the leader of the Labour Party since 2010, it suggests that he has done a better job than his critics argue.
