We have already heard—read my lips—that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the only person who appears to be surprised by the black hole in the UK’s finances. As Anas Sarwar rightly said, Labour has been in power for only eight weeks, but that has still been enough time to strip pensioners of winter fuel payments and enough time to turn a promise to reduce energy bills by £300 into the delivery of a £149 increase in those bills.