When Rishi Sunak came to power one year ago today, both the markets and the Conservative Party were in convulsions after the chaotic tenure of Liz Truss. Sunak steadied the ship, in part simply by not being Truss. But he swiftly demonstrated he was more than that.
In his first months in office, the Prime Minister secured the Windsor Framework, lancing the boil (at least for now) of the Northern Ireland Protocol. He signed the Aukus nuclear submarine partnership with the United States and Australia, bolstering the West’s defensive capabilities. And he clinched a deal with French president Emmanuel Macron to attempt to tackle the small boats crisis. The problem Sunak encountered was that the polls did not seem to shift. So he did.
