Quiz: How well do you remember UK prime ministers of the past two decades?

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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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

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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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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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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What did Rishi Sunak say was his favourite meal?

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Boris Johnson was sacked from his first job in journalism for making up a quote. Which newspaper fired him?

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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 Tony Blair Experience

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?