Daily Express: They spend - and we pay

Big Government projects lead to big overspending as sure as night follows day.  The TaxPayers' Alliance has performed a public service by exposing the shocking extent of cost overruns.

As the Alliance notes, most politicians and senior civil servants have little experience of managing large projects.  The constant shuffling of ministers between departments also mitigates against them picking up specialist knowledge and allows them to escape accountability for budgetary disasters.

The bill for the 2012 Olympics has already grown by nearly £7billion.  With five years still to go, there is every change of ministers breaking their record of £10billion excess spending on the NHS National Programme for IT.  That will be one Olympic record we can do without.