Still holding the PM’s chair till the further arrangement of a new prime minister, Liz Truss can be said to have spent merely one and a half months or 45 days or a total of 1080 hours or 64800 seconds at her official residence at No. 10 Downing Street in London.
She is reported to have served as UK’s shortest-lived prime minister. Her unusual assignment gives the idea of her precursor George Canning who also served for nearly less than four months. He exactly held the high office for as many as 119 days in the PM office before his sudden death from tuberculosis precisely on August 8, 1827.
There appears comparatively some sort of similarities between Liz Truss and George Canning. Just as she faced a hard situation in the respective resignations of her cabinet ministers as an extreme example of cabinet infighting between George Canning as Foreign Secretary and War Secretary, Lord Castlereagh also happened. His antipathy with Lord Castlereagh came to be recorded extraordinarily serious in absolute comparison to the present-day inkly Truss’s agonies.
In that olden times, the government was too paralysed. It ended in a duel on Putney Heath, a place in London, when Canning, who had no experience in firing a loaded pistol, was wounded in the thigh. Both tendered their resignations in that critical situation but later Canning came to be the prime minister though died after hardly four or five months in office. Extreme examples of infighting remains since the past.
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home almost missed out on a first anniversary in office, lasting 363 days before being replaced by Harold Wilson. He was appointed by Harold Macmillan as Foreign Secretary in year from1960 to1963, and again in Edward Heath’s government from the year1970 to 1974.