The chancellor's support package is significant, expensive and has left some of his MPs a bit uncomfortable.
When I met the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, in the click and collect zone of a DIY shop in Watford in Hertfordshire - he was there to do a question and answer session with staff - he told me "categorically" the package of measures had not been rushed out to bump all those Partygate headlines off the front pages.
So much so that it has some Conservatives non-plussed and uncomfortable. One called it "tripe," another "red meat for socialists".A big spending, big taxing chancellor by any modern standards was saying he would do more of both, with a big dollop of extra borrowing on the side too.
Because some of the help is universal, some of the people who get it might not really need it - and that could be inflationary, nudging up prices.
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