Alex Forsyth

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1,958 appearances 19 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

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Newscast · Andy Burnham's (Un)Funded Tax Cut · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, quite. voice-verified

And I think that was obviously quite an important point for Andy Burnham to make because he has been at pains to stress the fact that he's not going to be loose with the public money, if you like. voice-verified

And so he did say that this would be fully funded. voice-verified

And then this morning, just to give you a bit of the chronology, when the government made this announcement. voice-verified

They said, right, this is how we're going to pay for it. voice-verified

This is going to cost about 850 million quid for the rest of this financial year. voice-verified

We reckon we're going to save about 1.8 billion from scrapping the plans to introduce a digital ID, which was a Keir Starmer initiative that this new government had already said it was going to get rid of. voice-verified

Therefore, we're just going to transfer the money over. voice-verified

However, it then emerges that in the Office for Budget Responsibility documents, when they look ahead, basically, and give their kind of voice-verified

estimation of all the public spending plans, they identified at the time that actually the digital ID plans, the money for that hadn't actually been identified in government departments yet. voice-verified

So that was point number one. voice-verified

And then point number two, Darren Jones, who until only Monday was Keir Starmer's right hand man as the chief secretary to the prime minister, he put out a tweet voice-verified

And the tweet that he put out suggested that the digital ID plans were in fact unfunded and therefore the government would have to come up with some money for this new VAT cut policy. voice-verified

A bit of a zinger of a tweet from Darren Jones very early this morning. voice-verified

Yeah, thank you and good night. voice-verified

See you in September. voice-verified

Picture of him sat in a pub with a pint of something that looked pretty refreshing, although I can't identify what it is. voice-verified

And actually, his tweet before that, when he was confirming that he was leaving government, he wished Andy Burnham all the best and his team in government. voice-verified

And then this morning, very early, what he did was put out this tweet, which was effectively a sideswipe at the government's first announcement and the way that it planned to fund it. voice-verified

Yeah, similarly in the way that the choreography of them walking up Downing Street on Monday. voice-verified

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