I’d love to see Sunak could reverse last year's decision to freeze personal tax allowances for five years, which is ramping up income tax bills.

Yet that will do nothing to help pensioners, the disabled and the vulnerable, who often pay no income tax at all.

Cutting VAT, say, from today’s 20 percent to 15 percent sounds terrific, but it would benefit wealthier spenders more than those at the bottom.

Most of all, Sunak should resist the temptation to make wafty promises, such as tax cuts further down the line.

We’d all love a tax cut, but if Sunak thinks he can get away with promising a penny off income tax in 2023 or 2024, he's got another thing coming.

The best thing Sunak could do for pensioners is to reconsider his decision to suspend the State Pension triple lock for the current financial year, a move that looks more callous by the day.

Pensioners deserve more.

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