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Ir Keir Starmer on Thursday takes on the “checker and blocker cottage industry” and vows to rebuild public services by embracing AI and driving efficiency, but Downing Street insisted that it would not take “chainsaws” to the state.
The Prime Minister wants to cut the number of regulators and argues that there is a need for an agile nation, where “all regulations, every decision must reach the workers.”
However, priorities have not set targets to cut down civil servant personnel and so far identify only one of the roughly 130 regulators he intends to do x.
Conservatives claim the Prime Minister has established or committed more than 25 new Quangos and task forces, including new football regulators and offices for the value of money, whose efficiency from the MPS is being questioned.
But the wise man will argue that the revolution is ongoing. On Tuesday, the UK's top two financial services regulators x plans to impose stricter rules for diversity and inclusion as ministers push them to remove barriers to growth.
Downing Street also pointed to a plan to remove the payment systems regulator, which oversees the UK's major payment network by integrating most of its activities with the Financial Services Authority.
PSR was an easy target for Starmer, given that it is already closely integrated with the FCA.
Starmer wrote to all ministers who urged all pastors to find other watchdogs, but Whitehall officials said:
Downing Street claimed that it wanted a nymble state, rather than an Elon Musk-style purge of the current device. “We don't have an approach to chainsaws in our system,” a spokesman for the Eugenics said, referring to President Javier Milley of Argentina and Musk, who are equipped with chainsaws to explain their enthusiasm for cutting costs.
The priority said in a speech in Yorkshire that he is “determined” to seize opportunities created by AI, saying, “Pressing digitalization of government services will have the advantages of savings and productivity up to £45 billion.
He has announced a new “TechTrack” apprenticeship scheme to bring 2,000 digital specialists into the public sector by 2030, with one in ten committing to work in digital roles within five years.
Last weekend, Minister of Cabinet Office Pat McFadden raised a surprise in Whitehall when some of the civil servants said they would “small and get smaller,” and he would create an incentive to remove unperforming officials from their work.
Priority then wrote letters to civil servants to reassure them that they were cherished and “empowered” by reform. In December, Starme had to settle down Whitehall after saying that too many officials were comfortable “in the slippery bath of controlled decline.”
The Prime Minister's allies say that priorities are passionate about national reform. “What bothers Kiel is the growing gap between politicians and the public,” he said. “We have to close that gap and make sure that populists don't meet it.”
The allies say that the former conservative ministers created Kuango to avoid the need to make tough decisions themselves, saying, “Kiel's view is that if you want to be a pastor, you should take the accountability that comes with that role.”
