Modest Civil Service Staff Cuts Could Reverse Farm Tax Ten Times

Modest Civil Service Staff Cuts Could Reverse Farm Tax Ten Times

Policy Exchange has just dropped a new report by ex-Home Office director Stephen Webb estimating that £5 billion a year could be saved by cutting 80,000

Civil service cull can save £5bn a year, Policy Exchange says

Civil service cull can save £5bn a year, Policy Exchange says  Cutting 80,000 civil service jobs could save the Treasury as much as £5bn pounds a year, a new report has found, as the government seeks to rein in spending in a bid to stick to its fiscal rules. The research by Westminster think tank Policy Exchange has proposed the 80,000 mandarin cull in a bid to restore the civil service to the size it was prior to the pandemic. This follows talk…