Welcome to a Friday night edition of Tisky Sour. We're talking about Rishi Sunak's economic

policies. They've been celebrated by Labour and quite a few wonks, but are they as welcome

as they seem? We're also talking about Nadine Doris again. Do make sure you wait for that one.

We're talking about George Mombio on Politics Live, a don't look up moment and we have Boris Johnson

changing the rules while he's under investigation. You couldn't make it up. For months,

the Tories have argued against a windfall tax on energy giants and they've put off providing

substantial support for people facing a cost of living crisis. But yesterday, keen to get

partygate off the front pages, Rishi Sunak you turned on both. He's announced that all households

are to get a £400 discount on energy bills in October. That won't have to be paid back as the

original plan was with that £200. Households on means tested benefits will get an extra £650.

Households on non-means tested disability benefits will get an extra £150. And pensioners will

get an extra £300. And importantly, these are not mutually exclusive. So you could in theory

qualify for all four of these and it would be additional. On the funding side, the Treasury say

the plan will cost £15 billion. £5 billion of that is supposed to come from a 25% windfall

tax on oil and gas firms. That they will be able to avoid some of that if they spend more money

on investment instead of, for example, share buybacks. And then £10 billion is to come from

borrowing. The Treasury boasts that if we include the £150.000 council tax rebate issued last month,

£8 million of Britain's poorest households will be £1,200 better off than they would have been

without any help. But the big question is whether it does enough to compensate for 9% inflation.

On that front, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has made these calculations,

their number crunching shows that without any government help inflation would have left a

typical median earner around £580. But the £150.000 council tax rebate and the £400 grant

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