Prime Ministers who had the shortest stays in 10 Downing Street since the Second World War- including Boris Johnson
Speculation has grown in recent days over how long Prime Minister Liz Truss could have left in her role as the nation’s leader. The mini-budget she and her former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng laid out has been almost completely reversed, and the Prime Minister has since dismissed Kwarteng and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt.
Here are the five Prime Ministers since the end of the war who resided in 10 Downing Street for the shortest time- including the man Liz Truss replaced earlier this year.Theresa May gives a speech outside 10 Downing street in London on July 24, 2019 before formally tendering her resignation at Buckingham Palace
The suggestion was made in a draft of a constitutional review led by former prime minister Gordon BrownThe last Labour Prime Minister, Brown stepped up when Tony Blair resigned back in 2007. Previously Blair’s chancellor, Brown led Labour into the 2010 General Election the result of which was a hung parliament.
Less than a year into his premiership, his opinion poll approval ratings had fallen from 70 per cent to around 40 per cent and his failings as Prime Minister were increasingly the talk of Whitehall and the press. Tired, stressed, overworked and in desperate need of a holiday, he became increasingly ill after a series of abdominal operations in 1953.
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