There have been better weeks for Laura Trott. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury yesterday ploughed on in an interview with Evan Davis in which the pair argued whether debt as a percentage of GDP would be falling in five years. In that same interview Trott called Labour’s £28 billion U-turn a mess, “the likes of which we haven’t seen in many years“. Davis listed off a few recent government U-turns in response…

• Betrayal of pledge to not raise National Insurance.
• Health and social care levy scrapped.
• Social care reform scrapped.
• HS2 scrapped.
• Electric car mandate shifted back by five years.
• Immigration reform was reformed. “A U-turn on a U-turn”…
• Railway station ticket halls now staying.
• Fines for missing GP appointments
• A bonfire of EU laws and regulations. Still with us today…

Guido also noticed Trott claiming on Politics Live this week that inflation is an indication of better quality of products and services in an economy. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon, something which Guido would hope the minister responsible for public expenditure would know. Laura is one of the government’s more capable ministers on media – this does not bode well for the rest of them come the campaign…