OPINION - Is Rishi Sunak brave enough to tell us the bad news?

Politicians are always keen to tell us either how marvellous things are now or, alternatively, how marvellous things will be once they have their hands on the levers of power. From Gordon Brown’s “no more boom and bust” through to Boris Johnson’s “build back better”, our political leaders tend to lack humility when it comes to delivering economic progress. They’re not so good, however, when the economy takes a turn for the worse.