Andy Burnham's 'pitiful' cost of living measures torn apart by top Tory: 'It's a disaster!'
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Matt Vickers has launched a scathing attack on new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, declaring his first three confirmed measures a "disaster".Speaking to GB News, the Shadow Policing Minister argued that his latest pledge to cut business rates by 20 per cent is "pitiful".He said: "This is the third unfunded spending commitment in three days.
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The first one, he told us he was going to fund that using net zero, basically doing away with costs that didn't actually exist.
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He said the costs that were associated with digital ID, he was going to scrap it and save all the money, then it turned out from the Chief Secretary of the Treasury that that budget never, ever existed." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Mr Vickers added: "Yesterday, the Transport Secretary was asked several times to work out how they were going to pay for this £2 cap.
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