After a fiery PMQs, Rishi’s spokesman got a grilling from hacks over Jeremy Hunt’s plan to eliminate national insurance “in the next Parliament”. Labour’s new attack line is that this will ‘cost’ £46 billion a year, though when trying to pin down what the government expects the plan to actually ‘cost’, the spox couldn’t give an answer. Instead he referred to the fact that this is a long term plan with no time frame yet, so the OBR can’t ‘cost’ it. Truss would have something to say about that…

One hack pushed: “So we might as well stick with 46, I mean, that’s the answer”.

The PM’s spokesman replied: “Well, I – I don’t have a number for you, so you can just use… whatever number you want.”

One has to get a figure from somewhere…