U.K. Struggles to Deliver Services as Brexit Bites, Report Says
- Study cites rapid turnover of ministers and civil servants
- British politics ‘continues to be torn apart’: Freeguard
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Indecision and uncertainty over Brexit have left the U.K. government struggling to fulfill its functions and deliver major projects despite hiring extra workers, according to an annual review of its performance.
The rapid turnover of ministers and civil servants has added to disruption and diluted expertise, the Institute for Government said in its "Whitehall Monitor 2019." More than half of current Cabinet ministers only took on their roles in 2018, while some departments lost 40 percent of their staff last year.