We are two weeks into Burnhamania and the Prime Minister has already, er, earned himself a break. Somewhere abroad, our Andy reclines. In his absence, the government answered a straightforward question by talking about someone else’s money. Back to old habits already, eh? One of the new government’s first written answer in the Lords has come from Lord Pitt-Watson, who was asked by the Tories what assessment ministers had made of the tax burden on ‘working people’. He replied:

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