Liz Truss declared a “war on Whitehall waste” today and promised to cut £11 billion annually, including national pay agreements for teachers, police, and NHS employees as well as hundreds of positions meant to increase diversity in the civil service.
By lowering the holiday allowance for public sector employees from 27 to 25 days and basing compensation on location in the UK, the Foreign Secretary will also save $2 billion.
However, according to a statement from her team, pay reductions for public sector employees who reside outside of the south-east of England would account for up to £8.8 billion of the savings.
It was implied by her aides that the pay of teachers, nurses, and police officers would be at risk if the system were to be implemented for “all” public sector employees.
The Today program on BBC Radio 4 quoted Institute for Government program director Alex Thomas as saying, “The entire Civil Service pay bill is only about £9 billion.”
You cannot cut the Civil Service pay bill to £200 million without substantially altering the state.
It will come from the larger public sector, from nurses, teachers, and local governments because I know she wants to be radical but maybe not quite that much.
The adjustments, according to Truss’s team, would guarantee that compensation appropriately reflects where public workers work and prevent local firms from being priced out of the labor market, they claim.
“As Prime Minister, I will manage a leaner, more effective, and more focused Whitehall that prioritizes the issues that truly concern people and is laser-focused on frontline services,” said Liz Truss.
Whitehall has an excessive amount of bureaucracy and outdated groupthink.
A significant civil service union responded angrily to her proposals and vowed to fight them “every step of the way.”
Jacob Rees-Mogg, who supported the plans today, claimed that the positions were created “by the awake for the woke.”
The Truss campaign claimed that banning facility time, which allows trade union representatives to take paid time off to focus on union business, as well as permitting the use of grants, offices, and equipment, could save up to £137 million.
Attempting to implement Ms. Truss’s package of measures from No. 10 is certain to encounter fierce opposition from the Civil Service unions.
‘Liz is a low-tax, small-state Conservative with a mistrust of big government,’ a campaign source claimed.
She will reorganize Whitehall and take the drastic measures necessary to address the waste and inefficiencies at the core of the government.
She will ensure that each and every official is capable of carrying out the commitments stated in the 2019 manifesto and the issues that the general public finds important.
Liz Truss will encounter opposition at every turn if she attempts to move on with these measures after being elected, according to Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union.
“Civil servants are the hard-working people who keep the country operating, day in and day out, and they deserve respect,” the statement goes.
“They are not a political tool to be used and abused for one person’s ambition.”
Liz Truss has been disparaging her own government’s track record for the past three weeks, according to Mike Clancy, general secretary of Prospect union.
She intends to continue producing the same economically ignorant and offensive ideological rubbish that her Government has been churning out in previous years, judging by this pointless attempt to gain attention favorable to her selectorate.
Angela Rayner, the deputy leader of Labour, denounced Ms. Truss’s proposals, stating that she was “stuck in the past, waging old fights, and pledging a race to the bottom on public sector workers’ wages and rights.”
Her “tailored” compensation plans would reduce northerners’ pay and widen the already-existing disparity.
The government’s pledge to leveling up has been abandoned.