Boris Johnson’s plan to brutally cull a fifth of Civil Service jobs will work because Brexit is done and extra staff brought in during the aftermath are no longer required, a senior minister claimed today.
Jacob Rees-Mogg said the PM’s decision to axe 91,000 posts within three years would simply take Whitehall numbers back to their pre 2016 levels, after they were swollen by the EU departure and Covid.
The Brexit Opportunities Minister spoke out as unions reacted with fury to the proposal to…
