# Who was the worst British Prime Minister?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-british-prime-minister/959238 "2022-02-10T19:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-british-prime-minister/959238/21 "2022-11-09T17:15:40Z")

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Thanks, **pjd**. So many new options since I last checked this thread!

Think I’ll now have to go with BoJo (for his serial lies, egomania, very poor handling of Covid and Brexit, and his tooth-and-nail attempt to hang onto power when it had become obvious to just about everyone else that he had to go), but he’s got some _real_ competition.

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**Author:** ![filmstar-en](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-british-prime-minister/959238/22 "2022-11-09T17:20:23Z")

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Truss is going to take some beating if gross incompetence is the measure. But she simply did not last long enough to really do a lot of damage to the country.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-worst-british-prime-minister/959238/23 "2022-11-09T17:23:32Z")

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Or to leave much of a mark on history… other than the brevity of her time in office, which will become a political trivia question for years to come. She seems destined to become the British William Henry Harrison.

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