Footage of online meeting showed Kent county council leader remonstrating with councillors
Danny Kruger, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK and who has been put in charge of getting the party ready for government, is giving a speech this morning about proposals to cut the cost of the civil service.
In an interview on the Today programme this morning, he said that Reform would “close down many of the sprawling offices that Whitehall currently occupies across the whole district of Westminster”.
We now have over half a million civil servants working for central government. It’s gone up hugely since – I’m afraid to say, in the last 10 years.
The budget announced today will not maximise investment in new offshore wind farms. We have a record amount of offshore wind capacity eligible for this auction – more than 20 gigawatts – and the current budget would only procure about a quarter of that. Given the amount of competition in this year’s auction, we expect to see competitively-priced bids, so the government should adjust the budget to maximise procurement, which could attract up to £53bn in private investment in the UK economy.
Source: World news | The Guardian.
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