Rutte turns into longest-serving Dutch premier

Mark Rutte grew to become the longest-serving prime minister in Dutch historical past on Tuesday. The shrewd, centre-right political survivor spent 12 years in workplace. On Tuesday he notched up his 4,310th day in workplace, a day longer than Ruud Lubbers, who served as premier within the Nineteen Eighties and early ’90s. “I really feel like I am attending to the midway level,” Rutte, 55, quipped at a July information convention earlier than leaving for summer time trip.