a fiscal conservative. i think rishi sunak may be wanting a little self describing mojo for himself too. me think the lady doth protest too much, to quote shakespeare. henry, budget balance to be admired or doubted, do you think? oh, i certainly think to be questioned, as we would have any party thats in power. to go back to simon s point comparing this to what happened a year ago, let s also think about what happened over ten years. the conservatives in power, notjust under borisjohnson but back under david cameron, instituted fairly crippling austerity cuts that we had not seen also since world war ii. we keep talking about this huge generational shift. the fact that health is going to be back to that 2010 level, sorry, education, health has been ok and so is the home office but plenty of other departments are not necessarily going to find they are back in flush as they were even a decade ago.