Tuesday: VAT stripped from domestic electricity bills from October 1, funded by cancelling Starmer's £1.8 billion Digital ID programme outright. BritCard - the surveillance flagship that survived a near-three-million-signature petition and a year of civil-liberties fury - died in the end as a budget line, sold for parts to buy down winter energy bills. The climate budget pays the bus fare. On the bus cap, the £454 million covers a scheme whose total cost is expected to top £500 million, with the gap filled by Department for Transport money "already allocated to buses." He then asks how Labour intends to pay for any of it, and predicts borrowing or taxes will have to rise.