The UK’s Civil Service has long been touted by lovers of the blob as “world-leading”, having ranked number one in the last OECD-focused index in 2019. Sadly for them, the Whitehall “Rolls-Royce” can no longer cling on to that title to justify its ballooning headcount and cost...
The UK’s Civil Service has now dropped to joint-sixth place with New Zealand in a new global ranking of civil services, lagging behind Norway, Singapore, Denmark, Canada and Finland. In direct public service delivery, the UK now scrapes into 14th place. Hardly a shock when civil service office attendance is stuck at a feeble 63% and public sector productivity has taken a nosedive. All while Reeves doles out a massive £10 billion in public sector pay rises…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”