Cakeism

What is now known as “cakeism” – the idea that the UK can have everything it wants merely because it wants it – is becoming, like climate-change denial, the subject of rational discussion.

The letter is the latest blatant example of British cakeism.

The government has adopted Johnson's notorious attitude to cake – wanting to have it and to eat it – and made cakeism its defining creed.

Cakeism is not a formula that works in government because, in reality, the cake has to be rationed and people notice.

"Cakeism" has run riot — vast, incoherent ambitions detached from political, economic and business realities.