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Starmer promised to 'rewire the state' so why is the civil service bigger?

Summary by City AM
Civil service headcount has reached a 20-year high, bigger than it was during Brexit or Covid. Yet more proof that this Prime Minister’s only belief is in bigger government, says Eliot Wilson When Sir Keir Starmer appointed a new cabinet secretary and head of the civil service at the end of 2024, he made a notably cautious choice. He picked Sir Chris Wormald, an Oxford-educated mandarin who had been a permanent secretary for 12 years and had nev…
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City AM broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 6, 2026.
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