How long Liz Truss must serve to avoid the humiliation of being the shortest PM

Bookmakers don't think Liz Truss will be able to stay in number 10 and have a decent chance she won't last as long as Theresa May, who has was the shortest. Conservative Prime Minister in 50 years

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Liz Truss has only been Prime Minister for just over 24 hours, but already the bookmakers are betting against her.

The new leader of the Conservative Party has made it clear to her supporters that she will not call a snap election and instead plans to fight for the next election in 2024.

But with Labor leading in the polls and Boris Johnson not ruling out a comeback if Ms Truss's job as Prime Minister does not take off, the betting odds suggest she could be one of the most successful leaders. most ephemeral in post-war history.

A new PM begins with a host of personal ambitions for their time in Downing Street, and one of them is certainly not to be the most fleeting.

What are the bookmakers predicting for how long Liz Truss will stay as PM?

Liz Truss is not expected to last long as Prime Minister (

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Punters can get decent odds for Liz Truss to have the shortest reign of any Tory prime minister in the last 50 years.

This unfortunate distinction is currently held by Theresa May. But betting firm William Hill puts Ms Truss at 4/6 to spend even less time in office than the former Home Secretary's span of just over three years.

William Hill said he hadn't ruled out that Truss had the shortest term in British political history, putting it 50/1 for not reaching George Canning's 119 days in office.

The 47-year-old is expected to serve until Wednesday, January 4, 2023 to beat the short term of the 19th century prime minister.

Canning fell ill shortly after his term in office and died on August 8, 1827,...