Don't roll the drums for big financial drama when the chancellor delivers his speech on Wednesday.
As the chancellor practiced a final run through of the speech on Tuesday evening, with aides and pizza, his intention was not to reveal a massive financial package to meet this moment.
That's in part because the Treasury is instinctively cautious with cash. But also because price rises are so hard to predict and may go on for many, many months.For Mr Sunak, Wednesday's speech is also a continuation of a path he set out in the autumn Budget. "The moments that make life worth living aren't created by government, aren't announced by government, aren't granted by government."
And it was a message to the country that the government's money man was serious about trying to get the books under control.There was a contradiction then, in October, because the man who was standing at the despatch box arguing the case for small government was a tax raising, billions spending, big borrowing chancellor.
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