Bayan da jam'iyyar Labour ta lashe zaben 1945, Eden ya shiga adawa a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban Jam'iyyar Conservative. Mutane da yawa sun ji cewa Churchill ya kamata ya yi ritaya kuma ya ba da damar Eden ya zama shugaban jam'iyyar, amma Churchill ya ki yin la'akari da wannan. Tun farkon bazara na 1946, Eden ya nemi Churchill ya yi ritaya a cikin ni'imarsa. Ya kasance a cikin kowane hali a wannan lokacin ta hanyar rushewar aurensa na farko da mutuwar ɗansa na fari. Churchill ya kasance a hanyoyi da yawa kawai "Shugaban 'yan adawa na lokaci", ya ba da tafiye-tafiye da yawa a ƙasashen waje da aikinsa na adabi, kuma ya bar aikin yau da kullum ga Eden. An dauki Eden a matsayin rashin fahimtar siyasa da kuma hulɗa da talakawa. A cikin wadannan shekarun, duk da haka, ya ci gaba da sanin wasu al'amura game da al'amuran cikin gida kuma ya kirkiro ra'ayin "democracy mai mallakar dukiya", wanda Margaret Thatcher ya yi ƙoƙari ya cimma burin shugabanci na gida.
Jam'iyyar Conservative