Things that have lasted longer than Liz Truss as Prime Minister

The PM’s tenure came to a disastrous end after frenzied plotting from her own MPs, with reports of jostling, manhandling, bullying and shouting outside the parliamentary lobbies.

It has been abject chaos for the entire government and Conservative Party, with former Home Secretary Suella Braverman and former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng both sacked barely a week apart.

She promised ‘growth, growth, growth,’ during her leadership campaign but the reality of it all turned out to be very different indeed.

When Boris Johnson was kicked out of Number 10 back in July, a Conservative Party leadership contest started which in political terms now feels like a lifetime ago.

Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugenhadt, Nadhim Zahawi, Rehman Chishti, Sajid Javid and Grant Shapps all threw their hats into the ring to steer the steady ship.

But it was Ms Truss who came up top.

The process involved 12 public hustings events which lasted seven weeks – one whole week longer than Ms Truss was in office as PM.

It is a tune known up and down the country and defined the year 2007 when it was released.

So it is no surprise the single was number one in the UK charts longer than Liz Truss was prime minister – for a whopping 10 weeks.

The single, from the singer’s third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad, is recognised as one of her greatest hits which propelled Rihanna from rising pop act into superstardom.