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Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister after just 44 days
Truss has become the shortest-serving occupant of No 10 in British history.
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Rishi Sunak is a member of the Conservative party who became Prime Minister on 25 October 2022. Sunak has been MP for Richmond since 2015 and before becoming PM he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022. Thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford and did an MBA at Stanford University. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis of the UK Prime Minister here.
Truss has become the shortest-serving occupant of No 10 in British history.
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