Alex Forsyth

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2,054 appearances 20 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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 — 20 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.

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

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

seemed to be quite carefully planned as well, you know, with the kind of Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband rumoured to be vying for the Chancellor job, walked up together with their arms around each other. voice-verified

And it was a little bit echoes of that around the Cabinet table. voice-verified

Lucy Powell sat next to the Prime Minister, as we know, somebody that has been a key ally of Andy Burnham's for some time and now landed the job of Education Secretary as well as being the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, which is why she had the seat that she did. voice-verified

I mean, it kind of was, as you expect, lots of smiling faces, a big round of applause for Andy Burnham as he voice-verified

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