If Rish! makes a speech and no one is there to hear it, has he made a speech?

There were only a handful of people in north London on Monday morning to hear the prime minister make what was trailed as an ‘important’ speech on the economy. Photograph: Daniel Leal/PA

It’s a variation on the old philosophical conundrum: “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” If the prime minister makes a speech in Enfield and no one is there to hear it, has he actually made a speech?

The resets, relaunches – call them what you like – come thick and fast these days. Scarcely a week goes by without the government making some new announcement. Usually one that demands total amnesia of anything that might have been announced previously. Because it’s odds on to be contradictory. But every day is now a potential year zero. A day when time can start again. When Rishi Sunak can be adored as he deserves to be.