That is a worrying sign, we need to have a government which is on top of the public finances, not one that is making lots of spending commitments without explaining where the money is going to come from.
Commenting on funding for the bus fare cap extension.
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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.
The cuts to the Digital ID card budget are not real because the money was never provided in the first place.
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.
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