UK Government’s Unprecedented Prime Minister Turnover

UK Government’s Unprecedented Prime Minister Turnover

The UK is facing unprecedented political turmoil as Andy Burnham is poised to become the seventh prime minister in ten years, reflecting a rapid turnover in leadership. Source

UK Parliament throws out Prime Ministers like a dead mouse

By Conrad Black Andy Burnham is now almost certain to receive a coronation as the seventh British prime minister in ten years. This is a rapid turnover without any precedent in the history of that great office. There was an apparently comparable sequence between 1827 and 1835, when Liverpool, Canning, Goderich, Wellington, Gray, Peel, and Melbourne succeeded each other as prime minister.  But Liverpool retired because of declining health after …