Liz Truss has become the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history, resigning after just 44 days in office.
On Thursday afternoon, Ms Truss stepped down from her position following weeks of upheaval and discord within the Conservative Party.
In this article, The Telegraph compares the tenure of Ms Truss with her fellow short-term occupants of No 10.
Liz Truss - 44 days, held office until October 20, 2022
Ms Truss began her premiership with an unfortunate start when Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8 just three days after she assumed office.
On September 23, Kwasi Kwarteng, her first chancellor, announced the now disastrous mini-Budget in a desperate gamble to alleviate the cost of living crisis and soaring energy bills.
Tax cuts to the tune of £45 billion caused the pound to plummet against the dollar and bond yields to soar.
Two days later, the Bank of England was forced to step in to buy UK bonds amid concerns that cash calls could trigger a gilt market crash.
After more than a week of standing by his heavily criticised economic package, Mr Kwarteng U-turned on the plan to abolish the 45 per cent additional rate of tax for the highest earners.
Following further measures by the Bank of England to prop up the economy, Mr Kwarteng resigned from his post on October 14 with his successor Jeremy Hunt pledging to reverse many of the policies.
Mr Kwarteng lasted just 38 days - the second shortest-serving chancellor in British history after Ian Macleod, who survived only 30 days.
Five days later, Ms Truss’s Cabinet descended into further chaos when Suella Braverman resigned as Home Secretary after sending an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP, in a serious breach of ministerial rules.
Grant Schapps, who had heavily backed Rishi Sunak during the Tory leadership campaign, replaced Ms Braverman as Home Secretary.
The resignations of two of her most senior Government ministers prompted more than a dozen Tory backbenchers to call for her resignation.
The following morning Ms Truss resigned as Prime Minister.
Speaking from a lectern in Downing Street, she said she recognised she "cannot deliver the mandate" which Tory members gave her little more than six weeks ago.
George Canning - 119 days, held office until August 8, 1827
George Canning, the 19th century Tory statesman, had previously held the unenviable record of being the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history with 119 days in office - 75 days longer than Ms Truss.
Canning was chosen ahead of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to succeed from Lord Liverpool in 1827.
Both Wellington and Peel refused to serve under Canning, leading to a split within the Tory Party, and Canning was forced to rely on several Whigs to join his cabinet.
With his health in steep decline, Canning died from tuberculosis on August 8 1827.
F.J. Robinson 1st Viscount Goderich - 144 days: January 21, 1828
F.J. Robinson, or more commonly known as The Viscount Goderich, succeeded Canning as Prime Minister but lasted a mere 144 days in office.
Goderich proved wholly insufficient in holding together the fragile coalition of moderate Tories and Whigs that had been assembled under Canning.
Historians have suggested the severe mental health problems of his wife played a large role in hampering his ability to govern.
William Huskisson, a contemporary of Goderich and leader of the House of Commons, wrote at the time: “Poor Goderich is quite unnerved, and in a most pitiful state.
“Much of this misfortune is perhaps the natural effect of his character, but it is, in the present instance, greatly aggravated by the constant worry in which he has been kept by his all but crazy wife, and by the entire ascendancy which his good nature (not to say his weakness) has allowed her to assume.”
By January 1828, King George IV had decided that the coalition of Whigs and Tories could not survive and said a Tory ministry under the Duke of Wellington would be preferable.
Goderich resigned on 21 January 1828.
Bonar Law - 211 days: May 20, 1923
Bonar Law served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923, and is the only Canadian to have held the office.
Law, who was born in the British colony of New Brunswick, first held Cabinet office as Secretary of State for the Colonies in H. H. Asquith's Coalition Government from May 1915 to December 1916.
After Asquith’s government collapsed, Law served as Chancellor under David Lloyd George but resigned early due to ill health.
He assumed office on October 23, 1922, and during his brief premiership led negotiations with the United States over Britain's loans during the First World War.
Law then resigned in May 1923 after suffering from throat cancer and died later that year.
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire - 225 days: June 29, 1757
William Cavendish, the 4th Duke of Devonshire was a British Whig statesman and held the office for 225 days.
Devonshire was given the Garter and appointed First Lord of the Treasury, a position most historians say qualifies him to be known as Prime Minister during this service, in November 1756.
He served as First Lord until May 1757 in an administration effectively run by William Pitt, which was largely known for its involvement in the Seven Years War.
The administration was eventually brought down for a variety of reasons, including the opposition of King George II and the alleged mishandling of the trial and execution of Admiral John Byng.
Devonshire resigned from office on June 29, 1757.
