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Incoming PM Andy Burnham is ditching the government’s digital ID plan for all adults, shifting focus to urgent issues like the cost of living — a move critics say was already in motion, while Conservatives slam it as a waste of taxpayer cash. The scrapped scheme, once a £1.8 billion project to streamline services and crack down on illegal work, faced massive public backlash and was already scaled back to voluntary use. Burnham’s team frames the reversal as a reprioritization, but the Tories accuse him of political theater. Meanwhile, he’s also pushing ahead with North Sea oil drilling — a move that contradicts Labour’s manifesto pledge not to issue new licenses, though existing ones remain valid.

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