The number of officials in the kingdom has risen sharply a few years ago as Britain prepares to leave the EU, as well as a pandemic.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has instructed the Cabinet to develop a plan that could reduce to 91 thousand jobs in the civil service to free up money to reduce the cost of living in the kingdom, reports BBC .
“Every pound that the government takes from taxpayers is money they can spend on their own priorities, on their own lives, “Johnson told the Daily Mail.
that the plan calls for redundancies, which could save £ 3.6 billion ($ 4.4 billion) a year.
At the same time, the Civil Servants' Union warned that an “ill-conceived” plan could affect the quality of services.
Johnson wants the staff to drop to 2016 (before Brexit and the pandemic). The kingdom had 384,000 civil servants at the time, the lowest since World War II, but as Britain prepared to leave the EU, the number of officials rose steadily to 475,000 at the end of last year.
Although large-scale job cuts are likely to take time, the government argues that “instant savings” can be achieved by freezing the Whitehall recruitment and abolishing any what vacancies that were not signed by the Minister.
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Revision of the use of money in the kingdom is now necessary also because Great Britain actively helps Ukraine in opposition to the aggression of the Russian Federation . Recently, the kingdom announced the allocation of an additional package of military aid worth $ 1.6 billion. This is Britain's largest military spending since the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Prime Minister Johnson, the war waged by Russia threatens the security of the whole of Europe and should be ended as soon as possible.
