In a sign of the huge impact Guido’s UK DOGE project has had since it launched last week, it has received its first endorsement from a party leader. Kemi said on the Daily T podcast last night:
“I’m looking very closely at what they are doing in DOGE, because there are two ways that you can do this. You can try and make services more efficient, or you can just stop doing things, which is what they have done in Argentina. I think that’s likely to be much more effective. We have to do something like DOGE, we probably won’t call it that, we have to have a revolution on this, and we have to make sure that we get more people back into work, because that fixes a whole bunch of things.”
Guido hears UK DOGE is already starting to wag the tail of prevailing opinion in SW1. With the US charging ahead on cost-saving efficiency reforms Starmer has so far been all bark and no bite…
The project has analysed excessive spending on ministerial flights, diversity training in such unlikely places as prisons and the pensions lifeboat, and civil servants’ Range Rover habit. All paid for by the taxpayer and all ripe for cuts once identified. This is just the start…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”