Yvette Cooper’s Home Office ‘DOGE Unit’ Has No Staff – Guido Fawkes

Yvette Cooper’s Home Office ‘DOGE Unit’ Has No Staff

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The press dutifully lapped up briefings from the Home Office that Yvette Cooper was setting “up her own Elon Musk-style unit to root out Home Office waste.” Breathlessly reported to have “already started freezing contracts deemed to be a misuse of taxpayers’ money”…

Apparently it is “modelled” on Musk’s own Department of Government Efficiency across the pond in DC. Guido finds this difficult to believe seeing as the actual DOGE has payrolled staff and a federal budget of $40 million. An FOI fired from Guido reveals Cooper’s sham unit has neither…

The unit first met on 12 February this year and meets every week. In attendance are Lord Hanson’s staff, SpAds (McBride), Corporate and Delivery Directorate and the Commercial
Directorate. The meetings don’t produce any formal minutes at all…

Neither does the ‘unit’ have any full-time equivalent staff: “each member of the unit – including Lord Hanson – is also responsible for a range of other duties.” So the DOGE unit is just an off-record meeting of some otherwise occupied staff every week. Revolutionary…