PM insists service reforms will help 'maximise power'

SIR Keir Starmer has 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.

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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".

The Civil Service must be "more agile, mission-focused and more productive", they said.

The message is an attempt to win support from civil servants for a programme which will see radical changes to their roles and potential job losses.

The reforms will mean the Civil Service becoming smaller, with more of the remaining jobs moving outside of London.