
Rishi Sunak posed for the media as he left 11 Downing Street for the House of Commons
(Picture: AP)It is almost exactly two years since Rishi Sunak unveiled a package of measures that by his own description were “unprecedented in the history of the British state” to protect workers, families and businesses from the impact of the first Covid lockdown.
Anyone expecting a similarly spectacular response to the cost of living crisis - expected to be the worst since the 1950s- and the impact of the war in Ukraine in his Spring Statement will have been disappointed.