I'm Neil Patterson, and on this special edition of the Sky News Daily, we'll be taking a look back at

2023 in politics. Yep, unlike 2022, we certainly didn't have three separate prime ministers. There were no

lettuceses, there was no economy-wrecking mini-budget, but we certainly had plenty of twists and turns.

Here to hold my hand and walk me through the trauma,

our political editor, Beth Rigby,

who I should state, for those of you who are listening and not watching,

is very remarkably Christmassy in her choice of attire.

That is a very spangly top.

I am wearing one of my Christmas jumpers. I am fully in Christmas mode for this occasion.

And Neil just doesn't have the memo.

Yeah, I can tell. D-Mob happy, I would say. Let's start as we should in 20203 with the government. And at least we have a list of

pledges on which to judge Rishi Sunak. Having inflation, growing the economy, bringing down national

debt, sorting our NHS waiting lists and stopping the boats. Has he had any success? He has had some

success, Neil.

And I liked your intro a lot.

And, you know, when you were going through the kind of various car crashes that we were

watching in slow-mo last year.

I'm still traumatized.

But this year also has been full of drama.

I mean, it has not been the sort of boring, stable government,

if you like, that maybe people thought Rishi Sunak might bring to number 10. That he promised.

That he promised. It was meant to be studying the ship. The polls were meant to close. The gap between

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