What goes around, comes around.
There’s almost always a point in any government’s lifetime when it realises the UK has a problem with maths and decides that something needs to be done. Usually it’s at a comparatively quiet moment when there is not much else going on. Not at a time when many public sector workers are threatening strike action, growth has stalled, inflation remains high, the prime minister’s record as a problem solver is in question and when the government is about 15 points behind in the polls.
