By the end of next week's G20 summit of world leaders in Brazil, Sir Keir Starmer will have spent 22 of the 77 days since the start of September out of the country.
Does this matter? After all, this far out from a general election in 2028 or 2029 means Starmer can afford to neglect his domestic audience a bit.
Nevertheless the Prime Minister appears to be aware of how it looks. On his 2,500 mile long flight to Baku for the Cop29 climate conference I asked him about his priorities.
Why was he not in the UK focusing on the surge in small boats crossings, dealing with long NHS waiting lists and making the streets safer, I asked.
Starmer had clearly been thinking on it.
"I know you have been interested in this question of spending time internationally - I think the key question for me is what am I spending my time on, wherever I am," he said.
Sir Keir Starmer delivered a speech at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan today
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"And the two key priorities for me on all of these engagements with our partners is: our economy and economic growth and border control and border security - they are the two dominant themes."
It seems that few months into Starmer's time in 10 Downing Street the PM is working out what really matters to him, perhaps even more than his five missions which he trumpeted at the general election: the economy and the small boats crisis.
Perhaps this is sensible in a political world which will be increasingly defined by what ever new US President Donald Trump wants to tweet about next.
Is Starmer paying attentions to the lessons of Trump's win over Kamala Harris last week?
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Certainly in his pledge to set tougher green gas emissions targets to 2035 - a 81 per cent fall on 1990 levels - he made clear here in Baku at Cop 29 that he was "not about telling people how to live their lives".
This is a departure from some in his party.
Make no mistake - the election of Trump threatens to blow apart the alliances Starmer has sought to cultivate in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Rome over the past few months.
It will only take Trump to send out a tweet wondering allowed why the UK is getting chummy with our European neighbours when the US wants to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK to throw a serious spanner in the works.
Certainly there will be plenty for the PM to think about on his 2,500 mile flight home to the UK tonight as he prepares to face new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch across the Despatch Box tomorrow.
