Here’s a thread of facts and trivia about Rishi Sunak, the 57th person to be Prime Minister:
At age 42, Rishi Sunak is the youngest person to take office as Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812, and the 7th youngest of all time (after Pitt the Younger, Grafton, Rockingham, Devonshire, North and Liverpool)
Dec 13, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
For those who weren't up all night, a recap of some trivia from the general election results:
Jo Swinson is the first serving Leader of the Liberal Democrats or the Liberal Party (or any GB-wide major party) to lose their seat since Archibald Sinclair in Caithness & Sutherland in 1945
Nov 24, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The titles of Conservative and Labour Party manifestos since 1945:
1945 Con: ‘Winston Churchill’s Declaration of Policy to the Electors’
1945 Lab: ‘Let Us Face the Future’
1950 Lab: ‘Let us Win Through Together’
1950 Con: ‘This is the Road’
1951 Lab: ‘The 1951 Labour Party Manifesto’
1951 Con: ‘1951 Conservative Party General Election Manifesto’
1955 Con: ‘United for Peace and Progress’
1955 Lab: ‘Forward with Labour’
1959 Con: ‘The Next Five Years’
1959 Lab: ‘Britain Belongs to You’
