Halloween horrors from all-tricks-and-no-treats Rishi Sunak show the Conservative Party is still terrifying voters.
His cuts to key public services and living standards may be delayed until November 17 but the Tory axeman behind earlier-scythed household budgets and spending will still impose painful and unnecessary austerity.
It’s in the financial DNA of Sunak, a wealthy banker and richest Prime Minister in British history without the touch or political intelligence to relate to folk struggling on a fraction of his money.