'The results of this experiment so far should be instructive: ours is a country in which household incomes are set to be 4% lower next year than they were at the 2019 election – a decline with no precedent in living memory. And how did we get here? The Conservatives leveraged the populist wave that underpinned the vote to leave the EU, to encourage those immiserated by the Tory’s own policies to vote for them.'