Returning from an overseas trip last year that had been broadly seen as a success, Rishi Sunak was heard privately observing that a truism of foreign policy is that even when you get things right, voters tend to not especially notice or care.
One of the other cliches of overseas policy is that even if surveys routinely show it ranks low on the lists of issues voters cite as a priority, it rarely does a prime minister harm to be photographed alongside other leaders, especially charismatic and popular ones like Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president.
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