In her first three years in the job, an average of 16,000 public sector posts a year were scrapped. Between 1979 and 1983, ...

Major civil service change is in the air, but the government shouldn’t underestimate the scale of the challenge.

Britain’s bloated public sector is growing out of control. Even Labour, the traditional champions ...

Sir Keir Starmer will set out plans to cut regulation and make Whitehall more efficient in an intervention on Thursday ...

Sir Keir Starmer has written to half a million civil servants promising to ‘transform your work for the better’.

There is no approach here where we are taking a chainsaw to the system,’ the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has won praise for his efforts to marshal international support for Ukraine as President Donald Trump’s economic and foreign policies roil the world ...

The UK will slash the number of civil servants and use artificial intelligence to boost efficiency in the government, a ...

AI should be used to replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard, Sir Keir Starmer has ...

The new system would involve paying an upfront sum — the amount of which will be subject to consultation — to underachieving ...

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden insisted the Government’s focus was not on people losing their jobs but was on being ...

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