Labour Says Civil Servants Working In Office Is “Good” After Years Promoting Work From Home – Guido Fawkes

Labour Says Civil Servants Working In Office Is “Good” After Years Promoting Work From Home

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Hell froze over in the past twenty-four hours as Labour pivoted towards reforming its permanent bureaucratic wing, otherwise known as the civil service. After years defending the bloated state, and working hand in hand with civil service trade unions, Labour now wants to wield the axe in Whitehall…

Starmer’s key ally Pat McFadden said he wanted “radical” civil service reform including digitisation and performance targets (both of which have been commonplace in the private sector for many decades). The government is trailing an announcement that could see useless officials effectively paid off to leave their roles and introduce performance-related pay for the senior civil service. Sounds good to Guido…

McFadden also said there was “value to being in the office” and it was “generally a good thing”. Tell that to Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was relentlessly attacked by Labour when he left notes on the desks of absent ‘working from home’ civil servants back in 2022. Back then, McFadden’s Cabinet colleague Jonathan Reynolds called Rees-Mogg’s intervention “bizarre”. Labour ally Dave Penman, then the general secretary of the FDA union, said it was: ““the most crass, condescending act I’ve seen from a minister”. How times change…