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I've just been talking to the Prime Minister for political thinking at the end of his first year in office.

It began so well for Secere that landslide election win, a huge parliamentary majority, but it's ended with that majority evaporating. So our agenda for this conversation,

what's gone right, what's gone wrong. Sakea, thank you very much for having us here into

Downing Street. Thank you for coming in. I know you know it well, but it's good to have you in here,

particularly for our anniversary. Indeed, and it's been quite a year, hasn't it?

It began with an election land-stired, a huge parliamentary majority, a promise of change and hope,

and it's drawing to a close with a majority vanishing, as Labour MPs refused to back your proposals

to cut the ballooning benefit bill in a series of awkward U-turns.

When we planned this interview, which let's be clear was

weeks ago, my first question was going to be congratulations. I'm not sure that feels quite right

anymore, does it? Well, the first thing I'd say, Nick, in reflection, is I obviously came

into politics late in life, did other things beforehand, and I came in to change lives,

having had nine long years in opposition, frustrated that we weren't in opposition able to change

lives. I wouldn't swap a single day of the last year with opposition. And we've done some

fantastic things, you know, really driven down the waiting lists in the NHS,

really done loads of improvements in schools and the stuff that we can do for children,

whether it's rolling out school, uniform projects, whether it's school meals, breakfast clubs, you name it,

and got sort of huge amount of investment into the country. And of course, we've

been busy getting three trade deals, which I can remind people through you. These were trade deals

where other governments weren't able to get. So there's a lot that we can look back on. I won't do

a long list. We'd probably use up the whole 40 minutes if we did

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