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Survey: 1 in 3 Brits caught out by forgotten subscription

Following UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s announcement that plans to make subscriptions easier to cancel will be brought forward, research shows that forgetting to make a credit card payment is far from rare, with over a third (35 per cent) of credit card holders in the UK – equivalent to 12 million people nationally – […]

August 11, 2026

UK PM plans end to ‘subscription traps’

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced that he will be rolling out a series of ‘everyday fixes’ to help people with the cost of living, kicking off with two measures. Pretend prices and deceptive deals will be a thing of the past under the Prime Minister’s plans to ban retailers from making misleading claims […]

August 10, 2026By Colin Mann

CMS dept regains digital brief; Nandy stays put

The UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport is regaining its responsibility for digital matters following the arrival of Andy Burnham as Prime Minister. The department previously held the brief, being known as the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, before it switched elsewhere in government. Burnham’s reorganisation of government departments and allocation of […]

July 21, 2026By Colin Mann