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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
David Bond

l’ll privatise the a*** off Passport Office over delays, threatens Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has threatened to “privatise the arse” off the Passport Office, DVLA and other “arms-length” public bodies unless they start delivering better services.

Urging his Cabinet ministers to come up with creative ways to help ease the growing cost of living crisis, the Prime Minister also pledged to increase scrutiny of the “post-Covid mañana culture” at some public bodies which have come in for criticism for failing to abandon working practices introduced during the crisis.

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