Did Rishi Sunak expect to get a honeymoon period? Perhaps not. Left to patch up Liz Truss’s market meltdown and lumbered with many of her cabinet appointments, he was always going to have a hard time pulling off a clean break with the chaos and dysfunction of the last year.
Nonetheless, he might have hoped for a few good weeks before he and Jeremy Hunt unveil renewed austerity to the waiting nation on 17 November. Instead, Sunak’s chance to make his first impression as Prime Minister has been completely dominated by two deeply unedifying rows.
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