These have been incredible times for ‘reverse ferrets’. For those uninitiated, the phrase originates from the golden heyday of Kelvin MacKenzie’s red top rule at The Sun to denote a sudden change of editorial policy or political line.

Studying our national energy policy and net zero strategy has, for the research team at Localis, been akin to battling a veritable sack of furious reversing ferrets through three Prime Ministers, four chancellors and three business and energy secretaries – Kwasi Kwarteng who became one of the four chancellors, the inimitable Jacob Rees-Mogg and now Grant Shapps.