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Evening Standard
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Politics
David Lynch

UNCOVERED: Downing street rejects chainsaw characterisation of civil service reforms | History Defined

The Government has vowed that one in 10 civil servants will be employed in a digital or data role by 2030 (PA) - (PA Wire)

Downing Street has rejected characterisations of its plans to reform the Civil Service as “taking a chainsaw to the system”.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised a series of sweeping reforms to the machinery of Government, promising in a joint message with the country’s most senior civil servant to bring about a “rewiring of the British state”.

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