Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.

“It’s almost like the unsaid - you don’t have to say. You just know what each other’s thinking.”

“There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left undone, which I think is a pretty great place to reach when you're at the end of your life.”

Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.

Left unsaid was the high possibility that Johnson would be forced to cut a deal with Democrats to avoid a shutdown, a scenario that right-wing Republicans are fretting is the speaker's unwanted but unavoidable endgame.