Truss’s stay in No 10 will be the briefest, but she has still lasted longer at the top of the tree than some others
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Coup, assassination, abdication, suicide and illness – all have contributed to history’s shortest-lived leaderships, though none, in the literal sense at least, to that of Liz Truss.
But after just 45 days in office, Truss has the ignominy of being the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister by some distance.
