TElections were called unexpectedly, parliament was dissolved in a flash, and even many of the established events of the long period leading up to what were expected to be the fall elections fell by the wayside.
We never got the expected economic statement from Jeremy Hunt in September, although the Conservatives’ statement included an unexamined and therefore questionable version, and you’d have to be a Tory bull to think he’ll get another chance. Not only that, but months of thinking about what a Labor government might do in the future, some of which I touched on last Sunday, have had to be compressed into a few short weeks.
Rishi Sunak and his ministers have gone off into the sunset, for now at least, without getting their report.