
“My priority is to keep cutting taxes, not to increase public spending.” That’s the Chancellor, by the way, not Will Smith or Chris Rock, but if I’d put ‘Treasury Committee - Oral Evidence’ in the subject line you might not have clicked.
We’ll get on to the slap felt around the world shortly, but I did watch a couple of hours of Rishi Sunak in front of MPs this afternoon and while he didn’t do anything so naïve as to commit news, it was instructive.