Liz Truss pledges to cut civil service pay and holiday if she becomes PM
Liz Truss has revealed her plans for a "war on Whitehall waste", cutting civil service time off, ending national pay deals and scrapping jobs aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in the public sector.The Foreign Secretary claims her plans would save £11 billion and tackle left-wing "groupthink" within the civil service.
The bulk of the savings - some £8.8 billion - would come from paying workers living in cheaper areas of the country less than counterparts in places like London and the South East where the cost of living is higher. Her proposals were met with a furious response from a major civil service union, which vowed to oppose her plans "every step of the way".
She has also been accused of using civil servants as a "political tool to be used and abused for one person's ambition"."As prime minister I will run a leaner, more efficient, more focused Whitehall that prioritises the things that really matter to people and is laser-focused on frontline services," Ms Truss said.
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