Lack of Trusst
How long has Liz Truss been the UK's prime minister? Not very long.
How long will she remain? Probably not very long. She may even become the country's shortest-serving prime minister, at least in living memory.
Truss now insists that she will lead her party into the next general election, thereby strengthening the prospect of an early bath for her premiereship. 'Tis pity, for she's not BoJo and now looks set to exit even quicker than he did.
I called it here five days ago. Now, rumour becomes fact!
After only 45 days in office, Liz Truss has resigned, thus becoming the UK's shortest-serving prime minister ever. The previous title-holder, George Canning, vacated the position in 1827—after 119 days in office—by the simple expedient of dying.
Clearly an overachiever, Truss pulled off the double whammy of additionally becoming the Conservative Party's shortest-serving leader since the post was instituted in 1922. The previous title-holder, and incipient leader, Bonar Law, retired due to ill health in 1923, after serving for 218 days; although he had earlier led the party in the House of Commons for ten years, before the roles of party leader in the two chambers of Parliament were combined. What a way to mark the centenary though, with at least three leaders in this auspicious year. GO BLUES! (fist)
Truss may also have been the country's best-looking premier. But that's largely because—with the exception of David Cameron's fine coiffure—the competition wasn't even trying.
Let's not forget, in the list of achievements marking her tenure, that Truss was the first PM to serve under two monarchs since Sir Winston Churchill in 1952. So that's something less negative I guess, even if it's only through sheer happenstance…and the death of a monarch.