Starmer: Civil Service reforms will ‘maximise collective power of the state’

Reforms will mean the Civil Service becoming smaller, with more of the remaining jobs moving outside of London (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

Sir Keir Starmer promised to free officials from the shackles of bureaucracy as part of the Government’s sweeping Civil Service reforms, which will see an increasing focus on digital and data work.

In a message to all civil servants the Prime Minister and cabinet secretary Sir Chris Wormald said they wanted to see a “rewiring of the British state”.