How will Rishi Sunak be remembered? One possibility, of course, is that he won’t be – joining a list of prime ministers who have faded into history, like Alec Douglas-Home or Andrew Bonar Law.
Those prime ministers who are remembered are typically associated with one, at most two things. For Tony Blair, it is Iraq; David Cameron, austerity and Brexit; Theresa May, Brexit; and Boris Johnson Brexit and Covid parties. Even Margaret Thatcher, after 11 years in power, is remembered mainly for being a woman and the poll tax. Sunak is seemingly best known for being rich, but if he’s lucky he might be remembered for his plan to deport refugees to Rwanda and for leaving the D-Day celebrations early.
If he is thought of, it will likely be as a prime minister who inherited a mess. When he took over, Sunak was the third prime minister of 2022 alone. His premiership will enter the history books as the brief interlude after the immorality of Johnson and the incompetence of Liz Truss.
