Our new Prime Minister is taking action to protect British people against unfair dealing.

Too many people feel like modern life is designed to catch them out.

It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to start it. And if something is advertised as half price, it should actually be half price.

So I'm taking action.

We’re taking every opportunity…

— Andy Burnham (@andyburnham) August 10, 2026

“It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to start it. And if something is advertised as half price, it should actually be half price”, he says. Sounds fair.

Darren Jones is stuck paying for some subscriptions that he doesn’t use or want and has asked for Mr Burnham’s help:

Hi Andy, I don’t use my BBC subscription, could you help me cancel. While you’re at it, my water provider is providing a partial service, I can’t use my hose, can I get a refund.
Also I haven’t subscribed to picking up illegal migrants in the channel, could I stop funding it. I’d… https://t.co/b9nkhosYPg

— Darren Jones (@DarrenRJones) August 11, 2026

And on the scourge of fake price reductions, Anna Ridgway asks,

Can we ban the government from using fake discounts too?

If something is advertised as “free”, it has to actually be free!

Instead, most “free” things should be labeled as “taxpayer funded”! https://t.co/WspdhMscik

— Anna Ridgway (@annaroseridgway) August 10, 2026

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."

~ Benjamin Franklin from his 1766 essay "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor"