Liz Truss has cemented her place in history as Britain’s shortest-ever serving PM. Ms Truss had been in office for just 45 days when she stood outside 10 Downing Street to tell the nation “I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party".
She has said that she will remain as Prime Minister until her successor is appointed - which is expected to be within a week. It means she is the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister by some distance. In fact, Ms Truss would have had to remain in office until January 4 to avoid that fate, which has seemed unlikely since she fired her friend Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor after their disastrous “mini-budget” was blamed for trashing the economy.
She takes the title from George Canning, who became Tory Prime Minister in 1827 and lasted for 119 days in Number 10. But Canning was seriously ill from tuberculosis and was forced to quit due to ill health. He died later that year.
