Ministers wrestle with financial consequences of the pandemic, but face calls for more help now.
So after the ceremony in the morning, the politics in the afternoon fell into the broadly familiar tram tracks of recent political debate.
There is an awareness in government of the potential plunge over the next year or so towards recession.And the recent economic context shapes the political debate now.Covid prompted a government intervention in the economy, with ideas such as furlough, that was so big you could see it from space - hundreds of billions of pounds of life support at a time where the fear of depression, not merely recession, stalked Whitehall.
As ministers wrestle with the financial consequences of the pandemic, there is a bill of £80bn a year in interest payments on the national debt. But the prime minister adds that "no country is immune" from what he sees as the economic aftershocks of Covid and the war in Ukraine.That is very different to the messagingFew would suggest the government's intervention could or should be on the scale of a once in a century pandemic.
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