Jul 23, 2026 · 8 min · 5 segments
As PM Andy Burnham's spending commitment's mount, City AM's Editor in Chief Christian May tots up the damage. From bus fare caps to housing the homeless, Burnham's spending bill already comes to…
And every morning at 6am, there's been a press release announcing some new policy.
And he's determined to help people out a little bit of breathing space is the way he put it.
We took a quick look at the cumulative bill for Burnham's initial set of priorities.
That's a black hole, by the way, £22 billion of as yet unfunded spending commitments.
And that includes the defence investment plan, which she's committed to, picking up the tab for Starmer settling the NHS strikes, his emergency energy VAT cuts, debt interest, we know over the course of the rest of this parliament, his ambition to end rough sleeping, further increases in defence spending, all comes in about £22 billion.
If you add the other things he says he wants to do, like change our international development spending, bringing it back up to 0.7% of GDP and other such things, you're going to get north of 60 billion quid pretty quickly.
And every morning at 6am, there's been a press release announcing some new policy.
And he's determined to help people out a little bit of breathing space is the way he put it.
We took a quick look at the cumulative bill for Burnham's initial set of priorities.
That's a black hole, by the way, £22 billion of as yet unfunded spending commitments.
And that includes the defence investment plan, which she's committed to, picking up the tab for Starmer settling the NHS strikes, his emergency energy VAT cuts, debt interest, we know over the course of the rest of this parliament, his ambition to end rough sleeping, further increases in defence spending, all comes in about £22 billion.
If you add the other things he says he wants to do, like change our international development spending, bringing it back up to 0.7% of GDP and other such things, you're going to get north of 60 billion quid pretty quickly.
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