The cuts to the Digital ID card budget are not real because the money was never provided in the first place.

Labour’s tax hikes and reckless borrowing stoked inflation, and Andy Burnham has already made billions of pounds of spending commitments without any plan to pay for them.

I fear that he is somewhat captive to a prime minister who seems to want to go back to the 1970s and huge spending and state intervention.

Putting Benefits Street first leaves the economy weaker.