It involved no thinking beyond "will it help me be elected prime minister over the next two weeks?"
She could get herself elected, deliver a tax cut worth £1 in absolute terms to every tax payer and claim she delivered under difficult circumstances.
Rishi at least isn’t lying about the challenges but honesty doesn’t work so well during elections as he’s sadly learning. But crocodile tears from me for his plight.
This is true of most top-tier politicians. Are you a child?
How do I know this? Well the majority of the population pay less than £7k in taxes per annum. And that’s where energy is expected to be within a year. So even if all those people were paying no tax at all (and this is an extreme and unrealistic scenario that’s not viable), it wouldn’t offset the cost of household bills.
Not to mention that businesses aren’t protected by the caps so the cost of everything else will go up
What we need is clear and efficient crisis response and all the Tory government has shown so far is a colossal ineptitude and blatant corruption coupled with near sociopathic disregard for the wellbeing of most people.