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Former British prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss pictured together last year Alamy
Quiz
Quiz: How well do you remember UK prime ministers of the past two decades?
The rapid rate of turnover in the past decade has led some to dub Britain the new Italy.
THERE HAVE BEEN six British prime ministers in the past decade, leading some to wonder if the UK is the new Italy given the turnover.
Soon, that number will become seven, with Andy Burnham widely expected to become the new PM in July.
But in our quiz, we’re going to cast our minds back a little further and look at prime ministers of the past 20 years.
How well do you remember them? Take part in our quiz and find out.
Before becoming PM, Keir Starmer was ridiculed somewhat on social media for frequently referencing his father's profession. What did his father work as?
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Plumber
Toolmaker
Electrician
Carpenter
In an ITV interview in 2017, then PM Theresa May was thrown something of a curveball. She was asked: 'What's the naughtiest thing you ever did?' What was her response?
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Running through fields of wheat
Stealing sweets from a shop
Speeding
Not paying fare on public transport
Gordon Brown fell foul of a hot mic in 2010, when he described someone he had a public discussion with as a 'bigoted woman'. Where did he make this remark?
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Bristol
Luton
Birmingham
Rochdale
Back in 2012, David Cameron made headlines for the wrong reasons when he left his daughter behind at a pub. What is the name of the daughter who was left behind?
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Susan
Mary
Nancy
Florence
Liz Truss lasted just 49 days as PM, the shortest ever term in office. What newspaper ran a livestream of a lettuce outlasting Truss?
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Daily Star
The Sun
The Guardian
The Mirror
What did Rishi Sunak say was his favourite meal?
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Fish and chips
Bangers and mash
Sandwiches
Full English Fry
Boris Johnson was sacked from his first job in journalism for making up a quote. Which newspaper fired him?
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The Sun
The Times
The Independent
The Daily Telegraph
Tony Blair was in a band while at Oxford University (not pictured here, this is him at a community college in Sheffield). What was the band called?
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The Oxford Bunch
The Blair Project
The Tony Blair Experience
Ugly Rumours
In 2009, Gordon Brown gifted Barack Obama a pen and holder carved from the timbers of a historic anti-slavery ship. What did Obama give Brown in return?
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25 DVDs, which couldn't be played on British DVD players
A copy of Obama's 1995 memoir 'Dreams from My Father'
Novelty socks
Chicago White Sox hat
Boris Johnson has penned a fictional novel. What is the 2004 political satire called?
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The Eton Mess
Blonde Ambition
The Islington Conspiracy
Seventy-Two Virgins
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Larry
The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office has outlasted six PMs
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Liz Truss Lettuce
Truss told RTÉ the joke was 'puerile'
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Obama's DVDs
It's the thought that counts
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Fields of wheat
'The farmers weren't too pleased about that.'
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