British prime minister Andy Burnham (centre) holds his first cabinet meeting with ministers at 10 Downing Street in London. (EPA Images pic)LONDON: British prime minister Andy Burnham has vowed to crack down on hard-to-cancel subscriptions and fake discounts as part of measures to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, Downing Street said Sunday. Burnham said in a statement that “people are sick and tired of rip-off discounts and subscription traps”, where subscriptions are hard to cancel or automatically renew at a higher cost. Currently British consumers are “spending an estimated £1.6 billion (US$2.2 billion) a year on (subscriptions) they don’t actually want”, Downing Street said. Entering office, the prime minister promised to draw up a 10-year plan for the country.