In the last few hours alone Andy Burnham’s Government has talked about: Cutting energy bills Lifting the personal tax allowance Nationalising Thames Water The biggest council house programme since the War Giving mayors more funding Creating a new National Care Service More overseas aid Cutting student loan repayments More employment support Ending homelessness These are billions of pounds of spending commitments and that's on top of raising defence spending to 3%. Where’s the money coming from? There’s been no serious explanation at all of how they will be funded. I am very concerned the Prime Minister is making a lot of promises without giving the country an explanation about how we can afford them. We cannot borrow even more - we are paying more in debt interest than we do on defence. The answer can’t be tax rises either. The tax burden is already far too high, and families and businesses shouldn’t face even higher bills. The only answer is to cut spending. Andy Burnham should be in Parliament explaining what his actual plans are and how he is going to pay for them.