Liz Truss will have a claim to being the U.K.'s shortest-serving prime minister
Truss beats George Canning, who was prime minister for 119 days in 1827.
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Truss beats George Canning, who was prime minister for 119 days in 1827.
The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent.
Liz Truss, who resigned on Thursday, 20 October, set the 'record' for shortest time as British prime minister - just 45 days.
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