Andy Burnham has asked officials to draw up plans to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) — and simultaneously pulled the plug on Starmer's digital ID scheme — before he's even set foot in Downing Street. The DSIT gutting would fold science and tech policy into a beefed-up business department run by chief whip Jonathan Reynolds, while AI oversight in the public sector shifts to the cabinet secretary rather than an elected minister. The...