Fair play to Rishi Sunak, a man who seems not overly blessed with good luck. Or with a talent pool of self-effacing, steady-as-she goes lieutenants on whom he can rely to at least stick to a script in the name of imparting confidence.
Which is why some of us were inclined to smirk when he pledged to halve inflation to just over 5% by the end of this year, as if this were in his gift, as if some crazy-go-nuts Home Secretary wouldn’t say something that made a mockery of such certainty.
