FTSE All-Share is up by 11.5% in Sunak’s first 100 days in office.
Only Tories’ Edward Heath in 1970 has had a warmer welcome.
Hopes for peak in inflation and interest rates help – as does lowly starting point.
“Strikes, allegations of bullying by some Cabinet colleagues and tax avoidance by others may have been some of the dominant themes of Rishi Sunak’s premiership but despite that tempestuous backdrop the FTSE All-Share has had its second-best spell ever during the first one hundred days of a new PM’s stint in office,” says AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould. “Since Mr Sunak took the keys of 10 Downing Street, the FTSE All-Share is up by 11.5%. The only time the FTSE All-Share gave a new Prime Minister a warmer welcome was 1970 when a 15.4% advance in the index greeted the Conservatives’ Edward Heath’s surprise defeat of Harold Wilson and – ironically – the mandate he received to begin negotiations to enter the Common Market, as the EU was then known.
| Prime Minister | Party | Entry to office | FTSE All Share in first 100 days |
| Edward Heath | Conservative | 18-Jun-1970 | 15.4% |
| Rishi Sunak | Conservative | 25-Oct-2022 | 11.5% |
| Tony Blair | Labour | 01-May-1997 | 10.1% |
| David Cameron | Conservative | 07-May-2010 | 2.9% |
| Gordon Brown | Labour | 27-Jun-2007 | 0.7% |
| John Major | Conservative | 09-Apr-1992 | 0.4% |
| Theresa May | Conservative | 07-Jun-2017 | (3.0%) |
| James Callaghan | Labour | 05-Apr-1976 | (3.2%) |
| Harold Wilson | Labour | 15-Oct-1964 | (9.9%) |
| Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 03-May-1979 | (11.5%) |
| Harold Wilson | Conservative | 28-Feb-1974 | (19.7%) |
| Boris Johnson | Conservative | 11-Dec-2019 | (29.1%) |
| Liz Truss | Conservative | 06-Sep-2022 | n/a |
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