Andy Burnham has started his first full day in the job with a promise to cut VAT from household electricity bills from 1 October. But already – within hours - he is taking flak from a man who just yesterday was in a senior job in Downing Street working alongside Sir Keir Starmer. "Good news that VAT will be cut on electricity bills," wrote Jones. The government will have to set out how it will pay for its new policies at the budget." Ouch - that will sting in Downing Street.