‘Not the 1970s’: Minister slaps down four-day week calls from civil servants Politics Civil servants won’t get a four-day working week as we’re “not living in the 1970s”, the pensions minister has said. Emma Reynolds slapped down the demand from Whitehall bureaucrats on Times Radio, after it emerged staff at one department claimed the policy could save the government millions. Workers at the Department for Environment, Food and [...]
Government must ‘offer hope’ to attract investment, CBI chief to argue Politics The government must “have and offer hope” in order to attract global investors to bet on and back Britain, the chief executive of the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) will argue. In a rejection of No10 and the Treasury’s gloomy economic language, Rain Newton-Smith will use the CBI’s annual dinner in Glasgow to call for [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Civil servants banned from wearing ‘politicised’ lanyards explainer-in-brief 'Common sense minister' Ester McVey is cracking down on "pointless job creation" and banning lanyards as part of Civil Service reform.