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Hope, it seems, springs eternal in Tory breasts. No matter how disastrous the outlook might appear for their party, members can always cheer themselves up by exercising their right to choose new leaders, in the full knowledge that within months they will be plotting against them for not being “conservative”…

Veteran Conservative politician who served as a Northern Ireland minister and chairman of the party

There’s an incredibly strong pattern of failure among prime ministers coming to office when their party has been dominant for a long period

The monarch watched closely, according to a late political editor

National Archives files show PM presented with shock resignation of incumbent less than month after failed Arnhem landings

Newly released files show prime minister had to take time off Britain’s war effort to attend to affairs of top public school.

The Prime Ministers who outlasted Liz Truss include one who died in office and another known as "the Blubberer"

Truss is the only PM in history to have led for less than 100 days, with the longest-serving Prime Minister lasting more than 20 years

Boris Johnson’s successor dethroned by backbench rebellion caused by disastrous ‘mini-Budget’