The UK is set for its fifth prime minister in just over six years. This is the fastest turnover in new occupants of 10 Downing Street for nearly a century.
Since the summer of 2016, the country has seen the last weeks of David Cameron’s premiership, the start and end of first Theresa May then Boris Johnson’s time as PM, and now the entirety of Liz Truss’ brief stint in the top job. Another prime minister is now due to be in place by the end of this month.
There was a similarly rapid turnover in the 1970s. However of the four prime ministers in office at some point during the period 1974 to 1979 – Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher – Wilson had already served as PM for much of the 1960s.
