Reform’s civil service cuts would damage vital public services

Mike Clancy, General Secretary of Prospect, responding to reports in The Sun that Reform UK is planning to cut 68k civil servants, said:

“This is the third Reform policy pledge on slashing the Civil Service in as many months and the numbers change every time. It is clear that they are making it up this policy as they go with no real plan, and no consideration of what the impact will be and what vital services will suffer as a result.

“You only have to look at Reform’s utter failure to deliver on their spending promises in local government to see how realistic any of their plans are. This is just the latest desperate attempt to generate headlines by treating public servants as a political punchbag, knowing that they are unable to answer back.

“Make no mistake, cuts of the scale being mooted would result in a less effective government that is less able to deliver for the public.”