So here's a thing - on top of the pain everyone will be feeling over Hunt's statement, the only way it looks as "good" as it does is by kicking the can down the road.

The OBR calculations, still bad enough, are based on a further planned spending squeeze after the election *and* a 23% hike in fuel duty which Hunt somehow didn't mention, and which has about as much chance of being passed by a Tory Commons as I have of being voted World's Sexiest Man.