Ready for Rishi's report card? Reassuringly boring

It’s coming up to Rishi Sunak ‘s three-week anniversary as Britain’s prime minister and it’s interesting that he’s doing all the right things to be as boring as possible. Reassuringly so. He’s doing dull, essential things like tending to budgets and doing diplomacy. Consider his November 10 outing down to the English town of Blackpool on the Irish Sea coast. Becoming the first British prime minister in 15 years to attend the opening of the British Irish Council summit, Mr Sunak made boring — and reassuring — noises after meeting his Irish counterpart Micheál Martin. He that he was “confident” a “practical resolution” can be found over the Northern Ireland protocol and that there is a need to find a “negotiated solution” to resolve the dispute with the European Union over the protocol. He also said he was “deeply committed to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement” and that “We need to protect Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom and that will require everyone to enter into these …