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UK Will Slash Civil Service Jobs and Use AI to Boost Efficiency
The UK is the only G7 country not to recover the pre-pandemic ratio of employment.
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The UK will slash the number of civil servants and use artificial intelligence to boost efficiency in the government, a senior cabinet minister said on Sunday.
“The central civil service would and can become smaller,” Pat McFadden said in a BBC television interview on Sunday ahead of major reforms of Whitehall that will be unveiled this week. He didn’t give the number of jobs that could be reduced.