Rishi Sunak has been made Prime Minister without the vote of a single member of parliament. The system was that members of parliament were going to have to choose who would be the new replacement leader and therefore automatically the prime minister under our system. Boris Johnson had to clear this hurdle of 100 members of parliament had to say we will nominate him even before a contest could happen. And so all eyes were on Boris Johnson, as you say, he's been on vacation more or less since he quit in July.

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