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...I mentally thank Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who left her party in a similar state after departing Downing Street in October 2022, for providing her own metaphors....
...Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, nearly ate us all for lunch (“‘I don’t believe in guardrails’”, Lunch with the FT, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, April 20)....
...Which of the six types of quarks is the lightest — and has the shortest name?...
...Liz Truss has railed against her Conservative party for not taking on “leftwing extremists”, as the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister took aim at national institutions for blocking tax cutting reforms...
...Gay was Harvard’s first black president and took office only in July, making hers the shortest presidency in the university’s history....
...He will be the employee-owned group’s seventh chair after White’s almost five years at the helm — the shortest-serving chair in the partnership’s history....
...Arguably the real turning point was game five, at 27 moves the shortest of the match....
...As a historian, Kwasi Kwarteng — the UK’s second-shortest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer — must be acutely conscious of how he may be viewed in posterity....
...His visits to the Royal Opera House have been more frequent — this is the fourth since the current production debuted in 2009 — but then the opera is Wagner’s shortest, a single act in this version, and...
...On Monday the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister made her most significant intervention to date on her disastrous so-called mini budget, which plunged markets into turmoil last September....
...I don’t know where it is, but it’s the shortest river in England. I’m saying it because it’s the underdog. What would you have done differently?Written more speeches to read out at awards ceremonies....
...John McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair, summed up the reaction on X: “Shortest ever post holder, surely? Placeholder for a Labour nominee!”...
...Since 1985, the average lifespan of a UK fiscal rule has been below four years — the shortest across the OECD, according to the Institute for Government. The rules might be improved in several ways....
...The longest species, reticulated pythons, regularly exceed six metres; the shortest, the 10cm Barbados threadsnake, looks like a curl of brown string....
..., a BBC documentary tied to the Doomsday Clock update, asks why the hands have ominously ticked to within 90 seconds of a catastrophic “midnight”, the shortest time recorded since the clock’s inception in...
...In today’s London, what’s the shortest of the streets that features on a standard British Monopoly board?...
...Speaking at the launch of the right-wing campaign group Popular Conservatism, the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister delivered an unscripted speech designed to reinvigorate support for her platform of...
...But with her authority irreparably damaged, Truss was herself forced out by parliamentary colleagues just days later, making her the shortest serving premier in UK history....
...Finally, I can’t resist citing my FT Alphaville colleagues’ takedown of Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, whose new book argues that only ten years remains to save the west....
...A report in February from the Institute for Government think-tank found the lifespan of the UK’s budget rules was the shortest of any OECD country for which data was available....
...Claer Barrett’s recent short article (Opinion, FT Weekend, August 12) on the escalating costs of a wedding prompts the question — do grand outlays on weddings sometimes not lead to the shortest marriages...
...In October, White announced she would step down by February 2025, her five-year tenure making her the shortest-serving chair in the mutual’s history. John Lewis Partnership declined to comment....
...The small-cap Russell 2000 has meanwhile climbed 21 per cent since the October 27 nadir for markets, in the process managing its shortest-ever swing from a 12-month low to a 12-month peak, according to analysts...
...She took office only in July, making her tenure the shortest in the university’s history....
...Published next month, this is a sui generis offering for which the late founder sets the tone: “The shortest path to elegance is simplicity”....
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