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My impossible task as ‘minister for efficiency’

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

15 February 2025

9:00 AM

I am delighted that The Spectator is launching a campaign to highlight the grotesque levels of financial waste in government. Of course public sectors worldwide have always defaulted towards profligacy – but we are in different territory now.

Our GDP per capita is declining: through immigration, the population is growing faster than the real economy is growing.

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