Made it. Rishi Sunak sighed deeply as he looked out the window of his Downing Street office. It had been a tough nine months. He’d hoped he could have made a difference but almost everything had gone wrong. Who would have imagined he was on course to miss every one of his five promises? Pledges. Priorities. Vague aspirations. Whatever they were now called.
And even if he met one of them, would anyone care? Suppose inflation did come down to 5.35% by the end of the year. It wouldn’t be through anything he had done and people would still be completely broke. Prices still unaffordable to many. Just becoming more unaffordable a little more slowly. Even he could see that was a niche sell.
