When Liz Truss became Prime Minister, she had under eight weeks to restore Stormont before the legal deadline to call an early Assembly election. Rishi Sunak has three days.
With so little time, his first big decision on Northern Ireland as Prime Minister will be whether his Secretary of State should follow through with calling that snap poll.
Chris Heaton-Harris has been bullishly insisting he will do so if power-sharing is not re-established by the legislative deadline of midnight on Friday.
