government needed to spend some money on some form of energy price 93p- money on some form of energy price gap. what was the problem in the mini budget was that on top of those targeted measures to those households, there was this enormous giveaway for everybody else and that really was going to make the bank of england sjob harder. you are trying to tackle inflation which means higher interest rates but also help households while not having a recession. it s a tough challenge but they did not look like they were recognising the trade offs involved. the cbi said on radio four that one of their representatives feared the results of the jeremy hunt of their representatives feared the results of thejeremy hunt economic plan and there is a danger you get into what he described as a sort of spiral of decline, whereby you are cutting investment spending, because you are trying to balance your books but at the same time inflation is eating into the value of what money you do spend and you hav