Liz Truss has had one of many quickest journeys in trendy political historical past from beginning as an MP to turning into prime minister.
She first entered Parliament on the 2010 common election, when she received the seat of South West Norfolk with 48% of the vote.
She held the seat on the 2015, 2017 and 2019 elections, rising her share of the vote on every event.
On the 2019 election she polled 69% of the vote, properly forward of her Labour rival, who completed second on simply 18%.
It has taken Ms Truss simply 12 years to go from being a brand new MP to turning into the brand new prime minister.
Solely three different politicians in trendy instances have made the identical journey in a shorter interval, all of them Conservatives: Boris Johnson and John Main, each of whom took 11 years, and David Cameron, who wanted simply 9 years.
Tony Blair took 14 years from turning into an MP in 1983 to coming into Downing Avenue in 1997.
Different prime ministers have usually wanted round 20 years or extra to climb to the highest.
Theresa Might and Harold Wilson each took 19 years, whereas Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher took 20.
Gordon Brown needed to wait for much longer than lots of his contemporaries, with a complete of 24 years between his debut as an MP in 1983 and the beginning of his premiership in 2007.
However even this was not fairly as lengthy a wait as that skilled by Jim Callaghan, who took 31 years from beginning as an MP in 1945 to turning into Labour prime minister in 1976.