It came as newly defected Reform MP, Danny Kruger, vowed that his party would rip up the civil service code and re-write it to ban the “woke activism that has infected so much of Whitehall”
MINISTERS shouldn’t have to waste time on local issues like worrying about swimming pools, Reform’s Head of Policy declared today.
Zia Yusuf pledged that a government led by Nigel Farage would fill half its cabinet with unelected experts from different sectors – because they wouldn’t have to spend time on constituency matters.
He said: “We are in a competitive world.
“Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary isn’t also doing a constituency surgery about the chlorine levels in the local swimming pool.
“We must ask ourselves, is that necessarily the best use of time for people who are holding some of the highest offices.
“Do we want our Minister of Defence doing constituency surgeries during a time of so much potential conflict with regards to Russia and Ukraine.”
It came as newly defected Reform MP, Danny Kruger, vowed that his party would rip up the civil service code and re-write it to ban the “woke activism that has infected so much of Whitehall”.
Mr Kruger also promised to slash the number of taxpayer-funded penpushers and shut down empty government buildings, which have been abandoned by staff to work from the sofa.
Asked how many jobs would be axed, he said: “We want to design the function of Whitehall, and then its form, and then its size, so the size will be determined by the form that we arrive at.
“What I can confidently say, though, is that we are going to get this overall headcount of the centre of the civil service base in Whitehall back down below the levels it was at before Brexit.”
The MP, charged with preparing Reform for government, said he wants to emulate Donald Trump’s US administration, where the most senior administrators are also politicians.
Mr Kruger admitted that currently the party is “a bit of a pirate ship, led by a buccaneering, charismatic and ill-disciplined crew”.
But he added: “We will turn this pirate ship into His Majesty’ Royal Navy Ship of the line, ready to enter the King’s service and serve our nation.”
