This was David Mundell on Sunday, guaranteeing that any extra money produced for Northern Ireland to secure DUP backing for the Tory government would be matched by more funding for Scotland (as much as £4.5bn under normal Barnett Formula rules, because Scotland has nearly three times the population of the province):

And here’s the truth 24 hours later:

Who could ever have etc?

(Our first reaction was that this is nicely arranged as a convenient opportunity for the Scottish Tories to wade in, heroically “stand up for Scotland” and win the extra cash in a big PR victory for Ruth Davidson’s dozen new MPs that the tame Scottish press would be all too keen to write up in frothingly glowing terms. It may still be.)