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The big story: Covid civil service jobs first to face axe
They have faced Brexit, a pandemic and a cost of living crisis.
Perhaps it is little surprise to civil servants that there is another major challenge ahead – only this time it is about whether they will have a job.
Jacob Rees-Mogg today set out plans to cut civil service jobs by 90,000, which would reduce the workforce to levels below those seen in the run-up to the Brexit vote in 2016.
Covid jobs will be among the first to be cut from Government departments, it is understood, as the UK’s largest civil service trade unions threatened a national strike over proposed cuts.
Telegraph analysis shows Mr Rees-Mogg’s own department has more than doubled its workforce since Brexit.
The Cabinet Office and the Department for Education have seen the largest increase in staff since December 2015.
As households face a deepening squeeze on living standards, minds have been focused in Downing Street.
Ben Riley-Smith has the inside story on Number 10’s race to fix cost-of-living crisis.
