Tories have stepped up demands for a slimmer state – as the head of the civil service warns ‘fundamental’ change is needed.
Cabinet Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo will use a speech this evening to highlight a looming crunch in departmental budgets and the low levels of public trust.
She will call for a productivity and efficiency drive using AI, saying the technology represents a ‘paradigm shift’.
But Conservatives pointed out that Whitehall’s headcount has continued growing under Labour, with full-time numbers nearly 130,000 higher than 2016.
Shadow Treasury minister Gareth Davies said the party would save £9.6billion by cutting it back to the size
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