Everything goes back to the idiotic spaffing away of £400billion on Covid to damn all impact.
Why on earth Johnson and co ever thought that was remotely sensible is beyond me.
Get elected - spend absolutely massive amounts of public money on a short term passing mock emergency - spend it on things that deliver zero long term benefit, just pour it down the drain, nothing to show for it now, nothing at all - 4 years later reap what you sowed, huge national debt costs of almost £100 Billion every year.
The economic literacy of an ameoba from the Tory party.
(Of course labour wanted to spend even more, even faster, lockdown for longer etc)
Politically insane - if you just won an election why are you worried about your popularity to the tune of £400 Billion - by the next election covid will be just a distant memory for most people.