{
  "id": 484750,
  "title": "We spend £1.6bn a year on subscriptions we don’t want — fast tracked UK Government policy promises to make cancelling them easier, and will make ‘phoney bargains’ illegal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/we-spend-1-6bn-a-year-on-subscriptions-we-dont-want-fast-tracked-uk",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T15:46:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/tech/we-spend-gbp1-6bn-a-year-on-subscriptions-we-dont-want-fast-tracked-uk-government-policy-promises-to-make-cancelling-them-easier-and-will-make-phoney-bargains-illegal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Andy Burnham government tackling ‘phoney bargains’ and ‘making it as easy to leave a subscription as it is to join’",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}