Boris Johnson wants to cut civil service jobs back to pre-Brexit levels

Boris Johnson has told his Cabinet to cut as many as one in five civil service jobs

BORIS Johnson wants to slash the civil service to its pre-Brexit levels by cutting as many as 90,000 people from the government payroll.

The Prime Minister has tasked his Cabinet with cutting around one in five jobs, ostensibly in an effort to ease the cost-of-living crisis with possible tax cuts.