The recently announced mini budget might be, as one minister quipped, a windfall tax "that dare not speak it's name" but will be welcomed by many. The £400 for all towards energy bills may-like his furlough scheme-be criticised for not being targeted enough but additional one off payments have been announced to help the more vulnerable.

The packages will not, of course, come anywhere close to completely covering the hikes of the current cost of living crisis ( most people face an increase of far more than £400 on their energy bills alone for example) but at long last this government has perhaps realised that it's tin ear responses thus far have not gone down well. Doubtless many Tories will not be happy with the rumoured £1.5 billion package and feel they have had their hand forced by public opinion but it is, at long last, something. If only I believed they genuinely cared