‘Do you think people are stupid?’ Sunak shrugged. Of course he did | John Crace

Sunak veered from the fantasy that he was cutting taxes to cold hard reality when admitting Brexit has made the UK poorer

Remember the happy clappy Rishi Sunak? The caring Dishy Rishi? The chancellor who could look lovingly into the camera at Downing Street press conferences and promise that he would have our backs? Always. The Good Samaritan who smiled as he dug deep behind the sofa to pay our wages when our employers could not?

That Sunak is long gone. The new Rishi is a far snippier iteration. Someone who walks out of interviews when he doesn't like the questions. Someone who is visibly irritated to have been forced to fill in a police questionnaire about the birthday party of a boss he cannot stand - and who cannot stand him; the dislike is mutual. Someone who is beginning to realise he might just have missed the boat.