00:00KONIEC
00:04With the resignation of Keir Starmer,
00:06the UK is set to have its 7th prime minister in 10 years.
00:11Once touted for its ability to produce stable and long-lasting governments
00:15compared to other European countries,
00:17the UK now finds itself at the centre of online claims
00:21that it's ungovernable
00:22and that it has the highest leader turnover rate on the continent.
00:26Others say that other countries are worse,
00:28alleging that they've had even more prime ministers specifically in the same time period.
00:33But which of these claims are true?
00:35How does the UK compare in the number of leaders it's had between 2016 and 2026?
00:40For as fair a comparison as possible,
00:42we matched UK prime ministers against European Council members
00:46who have held executive power in each EU nation over the past 10 years.
00:50Bulgaria is top of the leaderboard,
00:53coming in with 10 unique leaders between 2016 and 2026,
00:56followed by the UK and Austria at 7,
01:00with the new British PM factored in.
01:02Of course, it's worth noting that different countries have different systems of government
01:05and leaders across the continent enter office in different ways,
01:09which is why we can't just compare European prime ministers as some posts suggest.
01:14For example, France has both a president who holds executive power and is voted for directly,
01:19and a prime minister who's appointed by the president.
01:22The British prime minister, meanwhile,
01:24is the leader of the party that commands a majority in parliament,
01:28traditionally after a general election.
01:30If the party wants to change leadership,
01:32they don't need to hold another general election.
01:34The new leader just slots into the role of prime minister.
01:37France has indeed had its own revolving door of prime ministers in recent years,
01:41having had nine since 2016.
01:44But this just highlights that the office of prime minister functions differently across the continent
01:48and can't always be accurately compared.
01:51And the new leader of the United States is the President of the United States of America
01:53and the United States of America
01:54will have an extraordinary change in the world's DB.
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