Confused? You soon will be … At a rough count we were on to our fifth budget statement of the year when Jeremy Hunt rose to speak from the dispatch box. All of them described as essential – gamechanging, even – at the time. All of them trying to undo the damage of the previous one. And all of them laying claim to be the real Conservative deal.
First we had Rishi Sunak’s budget proper in the spring. So far, so mediocre. Then Rish! rushed back to the Commons to say there were a few things he had forgotten and he wanted to offer a bit more help to people trying to pay their energy bills.
