A series of botched IT projects has left taxpayers with a bill of more than £26bn for computer systems that have suffered severe delays, run millions of pounds over budget or have been cancelled altogether, according to The Independent.

The newspaper quotes a Computer Weekly reporter as saying that Labour had displayed an irrational exuberance on some IT projects, which had sometimes led to good money being thrown after bad.

The Independent said that the total cost of Labour’s 10 most notorious IT failures is “equivalent to more than half of the budget for Britain’s schools last year”.

Early this morning, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme drew attention to the investigation by The Independent of IT projects.

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