Keir Starmer to depict reestablishs of ‘overpimpolitent, flabby state’ in civil service speech
Good morning. All prime ministers, sooner or defercessitater, get frustrated when they authenticise that the central rulement machine isn’t as effective as they would appreciate. They get to skinnyking that if they alert their officials to do someskinnyg, it will happen, and they discover out that it’s not that basic. When talking about this, they normassociate unite their criticism of the system with comments about how the individual civil servants with whom they labor personassociate are excellent.
Keir Starmer has get tod at this stage more rapidly than some of his predecessors and this week there have been a series of proclaimments about shaking up Whitehall. Pat McFcompriseen, the Cabinet Office minister, has said meacertains will be obtainn to relieve out officials who are under-carry outing. On Tuesday Starmer telderly cabinet that the rulement should be taking more responsibility for decisions, and not outsourcing them to regulators. And today Starmer is going to say that the state has become “hugeger, but frailer”.
Ahead of the speech (or mini-speech – No 10 are billing it as an intervention, not a proper, set-piece policy speech), Starmer has rerented an article in the Daily Telegraph setting out his skinnyking.
Starmer says he is only interested in making the state more effective, and does not attfinish if it gets hugeger or minusculeer.
We necessitate to go further and speedyer on security and renovelal. In such uncertain times, people want a state that will obtain attfinish of the huge asks, not a hugeger state that asks more from them. We necessitate to be operating at peak efficiency and strength. I apshow in the power of the state. I’m not interested in ideoreasonable arguments about whether it should be hugeger or minusculeer. I spropose want it to labor.
I saw the state at its best in our response to the uproars last summer. It was vibrant, sturdy and proposent. But for the most part, that’s not the state that most people will recognise.
And he says the state has become “overpimpolitent” and “flabby”. He cites set upning policy as an example.
I heard from a family business owner in Wales that produces homes for first-time buyers. During the adviseation defers and the lengthy set upning application, the cost of resources went up. The regulations held him back for so extfinished that he lost the site. Business unable to grow becaparticipate of red tape. Families unable to buy becaparticipate an overpimpolitent flabby state got in the way.
As Rowena Mason alerts in her pappraise, Starmer is also going to participate the speech to say man-made inalertigence (AI) should be doing more labor currently done by civil servants.
According to the rerelocates freed by No 10 in progress, Starmer will dispute that civil service reestablish should be shaped by the mantra:
No person’s substantive time should be spent on a task where digital or AI can do it better, rapider and to the same high quality and standard.
Starmer will be taking asks. Obviously alerters will want to ask him about the growing Labour revolt over the proposed illness and disability profit cuts, but hopefilledy someone will ask if this mantra should utilize to politicians too. You would not want AI running the handle (I presume?), but most ministers who turn up on the morning intersee programmes to regurgitate the No 10 line to obtain could easily be traded by an AI bot.
Here is the agfinisha for the day.
9.30am: Jonathan Reynelderlys, the business secretary, obtains asks in the Commons.
9.30am: NHS England rerentes its defercessitatest monthly carry outance figures.
10am: Helen Wantipathyly, the establisher attfinish minister, gives evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its module seeing at PPE protreatmentment.
After 10.30am: Lucy Powell, the directer of the Commons, produces a statement on next week’s Commons business.
Morning: Keir Starmer is doing a Q&A in Yorksengage where he will deinhabitr a low speech about reestablishing the state.
Noon: John Sthriveney, Scotland’s first minister, obtains asks at Holyrood.
Early afternoon: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit cforfeit Glasgow where she is anticipateed to speak to alerters.
And at some point today Shaprohibita Mahmood, the fairice secretary, is helderlying a encountering with the Sentencing Council to talk the directlines that Mahmood claims would carry out “two-tier” fairice.
If you want to reach out me, prent post a message below the line or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more probable to see it becaparticipate I search for posts retaining that word.
If you want to flag someskinnyg up proposently, it is best to participate social media. You can accomplish me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X but individual Guardian journaenumerates are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and react if vital.
I discover it very beneficial when readers point out misobtains, even inmeaningful typos. No error is too minuscule to accurate. And I discover your asks very engaging too. I can’t promise to react to them all, but I will try to react to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
“,”elementId”:”94d84634-f9b7-4655-bb4d-19dd3b5c64fc”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”premend”:”Roverdelighted: “,”text”:”Decision not to categorize Southport finisher as a worryist was right, says UK watchdog”,”elementId”:”de86df03-3088-48e8-b477-642222713bb2″,”role”:”thumbnail”,”url”:”https://www.thedefendian.com/uk-novels/2025/mar/13/decision-not-to-categorize-southport-finisher-as-a-worryist-was-right-says-uk-watchdog”}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:deceptive,”keyEvent”:real,”summary”:deceptive},”blockCreatedOn”:1741861165000,”blockCreatedOnDistake part”:”06.19 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1741861284000,”blockLastUpdatedDistake part”:”06.21 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1741861284000,”blockFirstPublishedDistake part”:”06.21 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDistake partNoTimezone”:”06.21″,”title”:”Decision not to categorize Southport finisher as a worryist was right, says UK watchdog”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 13 Mar 2025 06.26 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First rerented on Thu 13 Mar 2025 05.35 EDT”},{“id”:”67d2ab2f8f08755d4e173bc3″,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
The Times today is running a story saying that Peter Kyle, the science secretary, “has portrayd himself as a ‘disturbor’ with aappreciateities to Elon Musk or Dominic Cummings” becaparticipate he wants to participate AI to up-to-dateise the deinhabitry of unveil services.
“,”elementId”:”cb21116d-2b79-4b11-90b8-1f45e6398700″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
As elucidateed on the blog yesterday, the rulement is now in favour of “disturbor” politics.
“,”elementId”:”57df456d-1809-4761-b7c4-60e2b8c71f69″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
But, an in intersee with LBC, Kyle was willing to elucidate what this nastyt. Asked if he wanted to be seen as a disturbor appreciate Musk or Cummings, he replied:
“,”elementId”:”b115e8f7-8659-42d9-bb64-efce85a2a952″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”
n
I aspire to be a disturbor in a preferable way that obtains people with us and excites people for change.
n
The rerent about disturbors and disturbion – in the past, it’s been participated in a afraid way, in a menaceening way, in a way that actuassociate produces circumstances where people are afraid of change.
n
In Keir Starmer as prime minister, you see somebody who wants to direct preferablely thraw change, but yes, be assiduous and be resolved in deinhabitring the outcome.
n
“,”elementId”:”8cdeefcb-2369-4658-ae5d-a5b07ec3fe63″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:deceptive,”keyEvent”:real,”summary”:deceptive},”blockCreatedOn”:1741859631000,”blockCreatedOnDistake part”:”05.53 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1741860252000,”blockLastUpdatedDistake part”:”06.04 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1741860252000,”blockFirstPublishedDistake part”:”06.04 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDistake partNoTimezone”:”06.04″,”title”:”Peter Kyle says ministers want to be disturbors, but ‘in preferable way’, when asked about aappreciateities with Elon Musk”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 13 Mar 2025 06.26 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First rerented on Thu 13 Mar 2025 05.35 EDT”},{“id”:”67d2aa028f0861bd5ce8fd01″,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
The headline hospital paparticipateing enumerate figure for England has descfinishen for the fifth month in a row, PA Media alerts.
“,”elementId”:”2466f072-245a-4110-b38a-aa432b97e7c3″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”
n
An approximated 7.43m treatments were paparticipateing to be carried out at the finish of January, down from 7.46m at the finish of December, NHS England figures show.
n
This is the lowest figure since April 2023.
n
But 6.25m fortolerateings were approximated to be paparticipateing for treatments at the finish of January, up sairyly from 6.24m at the finish of December.
n
The two figures are branch offent becaparticipate some individuals are paparticipateing for more than one procedure.
n
The paparticipateing enumerate hit a enroll high in September 2023, with 7.77m treatments and 6.5m fortolerateings.
n
“,”elementId”:”af06864d-95c5-423d-bc2d-b9afef16e8ec”}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:deceptive,”keyEvent”:real,”summary”:deceptive},”blockCreatedOn”:1741859330000,”blockCreatedOnDistake part”:”05.48 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1741859583000,”blockLastUpdatedDistake part”:”05.53 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1741859583000,”blockFirstPublishedDistake part”:”05.53 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDistake partNoTimezone”:”05.53″,”title”:”Hospital paparticipateing enumerate figure for England descfinishs sairyly for five month in row”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 13 Mar 2025 06.26 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First rerented on Thu 13 Mar 2025 05.35 EDT”},{“id”:”67d291338f0830800fcc652b”,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Good morning. All prime ministers, sooner or defercessitater, get frustrated when they authenticise that the central rulement machine isn’t as effective as they would appreciate. They get to skinnyking that if they alert their officials to do someskinnyg, it will happen, and they discover out that it’s not that basic. When talking about this, they normassociate unite their criticism of the system with comments about how the individual civil servants with whom they labor personassociate are excellent.
“,”elementId”:”fec1673e-2686-430c-aeb5-e0d9d1fecomprise2″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Keir Starmer has get tod at this stage more rapidly than some of his predecessors and this week there have been a series of proclaimments about shaking up Whitehall. Pat McFcompriseen, the Cabinet Office minister, has said meacertains will be obtainn to relieve out officials who are under-carry outing. On Tuesday Starmer telderly cabinet that the rulement should be taking more responsibility for decisions, and not outsourcing them to regulators. And today Starmer is going to say that the state has become “hugeger, but frailer”.
“,”elementId”:”797c8a84-b471-4271-bc30-76e26e9b875e”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Ahead of the speech (or mini-speech – No 10 are billing it as an intervention, not a proper, set-piece policy speech), Starmer has rerented an article in the Daily Telegraph setting out his skinnyking.
“,”elementId”:”a3e8ab24-b20e-4681-a83e-18684ae76c4d”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Starmer says he is only interested in making the state more effective, and does not attfinish if it gets hugeger or minusculeer.
“,”elementId”:”38d15c3d-30f9-4af7-9b25-42f0456445f7″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”
n
We necessitate to go further and speedyer on security and renovelal. In such uncertain times, people want a state that will obtain attfinish of the huge asks, not a hugeger state that asks more from them. We necessitate to be operating at peak efficiency and strength. I apshow in the power of the state. I’m not interested in ideoreasonable arguments about whether it should be hugeger or minusculeer. I spropose want it to labor.
n
I saw the state at its best in our response to the uproars last summer. It was vibrant, sturdy and proposent. But for the most part, that’s not the state that most people will recognise.
n
“,”elementId”:”3598c80a-65cb-4278-b47b-34f05661eac1″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
And he says the state has become “overpimpolitent” and “flabby”. He cites set upning policy as an example.
“,”elementId”:”b5c3650a-2a3e-49de-8116-0b6d033756aa”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”
n
I heard from a family business owner in Wales that produces homes for first-time buyers. During the adviseation defers and the lengthy set upning application, the cost of resources went up. The regulations held him back for so extfinished that he lost the site. Business unable to grow becaparticipate of red tape. Families unable to buy becaparticipate an overpimpolitent flabby state got in the way.
n
“,”elementId”:”6808927c-2b6a-42a6-9300-7015b7a49b1a”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
As Rowena Mason alerts in her pappraise, Starmer is also going to participate the speech to say man-made inalertigence (AI) should be doing more labor currently done by civil servants.
“,”elementId”:”cd7e1563-1867-4db5-9227-5d6a0e41305b”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”premend”:”Roverdelighted: “,”text”:”AI should trade some labor of civil servants, Starmer to proclaim”,”elementId”:”736c968a-7a19-41b1-bc8b-000ae822c7d4″,”role”:”thumbnail”,”url”:”https://www.thedefendian.com/technology/2025/mar/12/ai-should-trade-some-labor-of-civil-servants-under-novel-rules-keir-starmer-to-proclaim”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
According to the rerelocates freed by No 10 in progress, Starmer will dispute that civil service reestablish should be shaped by the mantra:
“,”elementId”:”10b2a9d2-3375-453e-b4c5-457271a208a2″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.BlockquoteBlockElement”,”html”:”
n
No person’s substantive time should be spent on a task where digital or AI can do it better, rapider and to the same high quality and standard.
n
“,”elementId”:”9d1444fb-3889-44b1-9563-73e9a1a468a7″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Starmer will be taking asks. Obviously alerters will want to ask him about the growing Labour revolt over the proposed illness and disability profit cuts, but hopefilledy someone will ask if this mantra should utilize to politicians too. You would not want AI running the handle (I presume?), but most ministers who turn up on the morning intersee programmes to regurgitate the No 10 line to obtain could easily be traded by an AI bot.
“,”elementId”:”202bb043-41d0-4a47-b4cc-461096ea1292″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Here is the agfinisha for the day.
“,”elementId”:”7d89c09f-b937-49da-82a2-1f5b75284d0b”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
9.30am: Jonathan Reynelderlys, the business secretary, obtains asks in the Commons.
“,”elementId”:”24804306-a257-4777-9832-993328430b9c”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
9.30am: NHS England rerentes its defercessitatest monthly carry outance figures.
“,”elementId”:”4241fcb4-a632-433a-b9a4-cf08b8385776″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
10am: Helen Wantipathyly, the establisher attfinish minister, gives evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its module seeing at PPE protreatmentment.
“,”elementId”:”b4939c83-48b2-4148-b4d8-1df78af95c7d”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
After 10.30am: Lucy Powell, the directer of the Commons, produces a statement on next week’s Commons business.
“,”elementId”:”f5820024-19bf-43ac-ab9e-df8f7b4baa32″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Morning: Keir Starmer is doing a Q&A in Yorksengage where he will deinhabitr a low speech about reestablishing the state.
“,”elementId”:”f536d4d2-fdd6-4357-bd7c-12b05b97bd87″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Noon: John Sthriveney, Scotland’s first minister, obtains asks at Holyrood.
“,”elementId”:”4779334e-713d-4013-a9c2-89094edfc132″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
Early afternoon: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit cforfeit Glasgow where she is anticipateed to speak to alerters.
“,”elementId”:”91174bc3-01b4-41d6-8010-c4a3a7e41c6e”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
And at some point today Shaprohibita Mahmood, the fairice secretary, is helderlying a encountering with the Sentencing Council to talk the directlines that Mahmood claims would carry out “two-tier” fairice.
“,”elementId”:”cf7fdc8b-5578-4850-88ed-8comprise28cc3b06″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
If you want to reach out me, prent post a message below the line or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more probable to see it becaparticipate I search for posts retaining that word.
“,”elementId”:”54df32b7-e795-448b-a12f-72d1844390d2″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
If you want to flag someskinnyg up proposently, it is best to participate social media. You can accomplish me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X but individual Guardian journaenumerates are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and react if vital.
“,”elementId”:”a0df52da-960c-4934-8da3-3d66f6ed21c5″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrfinishering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”
I discover it very beneficial when readers point out misobtains, even inmeaningful typos. No error is too minuscule to accurate. And I discover your asks very engaging too. I can’t promise to react to them all, but I will try to react to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
“,”elementId”:”dbdad6b8-23ff-4556-bebf-b6c1971c947a”}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:real,”keyEvent”:real,”summary”:deceptive},”blockCreatedOn”:1741858546000,”blockCreatedOnDistake part”:”05.35 EDT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1741860281000,”blockLastUpdatedDistake part”:”06.04 EDT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1741858546000,”blockFirstPublishedDistake part”:”05.35 EDT”,”blockFirstPublishedDistake partNoTimezone”:”05.35″,”title”:”Keir Starmer to depict reestablishs of ‘overpimpolitent, flabby state’ in civil service speech”,”contributors”:[],”primaryDateLine”:”Thu 13 Mar 2025 06.26 EDT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First rerented on Thu 13 Mar 2025 05.35 EDT”}],”filterKeyEvents”:deceptive,”id”:”key-events-caroparticipatel-mobile”,”absoluteServerTimes”:deceptive,”rfinisheringTarget”:”Web”}”>
Key events
The Conservatives claim Keir Starmer is “not solemn” about civil service reestablish. In a statement freed last night in response to the overnight pappraise of Starmer’s speech, Alex Burghart, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said:
Labour is not solemn about getting Britain growing.
The prime minister has no set up to reestablish the civil service or cut unveil spfinishing. Thanks to his budget the size of the state will accomplish a staggering 44% of GDP by 2030. Meanwhile businesses are being strangled by Rachel Reeves’s taxes and Angela Rayner’s red tape.
Decision not to categorize Southport finisher as a worryist was right, says UK watchdog
The decision not to categorize Axel Rudakuprohibita as a worryist follothriveg the Southport homicides was right becaparticipate it would be unbeneficial to stretch the definition of extremism to cover all innervous presentility, Jonathan Hall KC, the UK’s worry watchdog, has finishd. Rachel Hall has the story.
Peter Kyle says ministers want to be disturbors, but ‘in preferable way’, when asked about aappreciateities with Elon Musk
The Times today is running a story saying that Peter Kyle, the science secretary, “has portrayd himself as a ‘disturbor’ with aappreciateities to Elon Musk or Dominic Cummings” becaparticipate he wants to participate AI to up-to-dateise the deinhabitry of unveil services.
As elucidateed on the blog yesterday, the rulement is now in favour of “disturbor” politics.
But, an in intersee with LBC, Kyle was willing to elucidate what this nastyt. Asked if he wanted to be seen as a disturbor appreciate Musk or Cummings, he replied:
I aspire to be a disturbor in a preferable way that obtains people with us and excites people for change.
The rerent about disturbors and disturbion – in the past, it’s been participated in a afraid way, in a menaceening way, in a way that actuassociate produces circumstances where people are afraid of change.
In Keir Starmer as prime minister, you see somebody who wants to direct preferablely thraw change, but yes, be assiduous and be resolved in deinhabitring the outcome.
Hospital paparticipateing enumerate figure for England descfinishs sairyly for five month in row
The headline hospital paparticipateing enumerate figure for England has descfinishen for the fifth month in a row, PA Media alerts.
An approximated 7.43m treatments were paparticipateing to be carried out at the finish of January, down from 7.46m at the finish of December, NHS England figures show.
This is the lowest figure since April 2023.
But 6.25m fortolerateings were approximated to be paparticipateing for treatments at the finish of January, up sairyly from 6.24m at the finish of December.
The two figures are branch offent becaparticipate some individuals are paparticipateing for more than one procedure.
The paparticipateing enumerate hit a enroll high in September 2023, with 7.77m treatments and 6.5m fortolerateings.
There will be two Commons statements today at about 11.30am, after business asks. First Wes Streeting, the health secretary, will give an refresh on NHS England, where about half the HQ laborforce is being cut to elude duplication with the labor done by the Department of Health and Social Security. And then Stephanie Peacock, a culture minister, is making a statement about the set ups to commemorate the 80th anniversaries of Victory in Europe day and Victory over Japan day.
Keir Starmer to depict reestablishs of ‘overpimpolitent, flabby state’ in civil service speech
Good morning. All prime ministers, sooner or defercessitater, get frustrated when they authenticise that the central rulement machine isn’t as effective as they would appreciate. They get to skinnyking that if they alert their officials to do someskinnyg, it will happen, and they discover out that it’s not that basic. When talking about this, they normassociate unite their criticism of the system with comments about how the individual civil servants with whom they labor personassociate are excellent.
Keir Starmer has get tod at this stage more rapidly than some of his predecessors and this week there have been a series of proclaimments about shaking up Whitehall. Pat McFcompriseen, the Cabinet Office minister, has said meacertains will be obtainn to relieve out officials who are under-carry outing. On Tuesday Starmer telderly cabinet that the rulement should be taking more responsibility for decisions, and not outsourcing them to regulators. And today Starmer is going to say that the state has become “hugeger, but frailer”.
Ahead of the speech (or mini-speech – No 10 are billing it as an intervention, not a proper, set-piece policy speech), Starmer has rerented an article in the Daily Telegraph setting out his skinnyking.
Starmer says he is only interested in making the state more effective, and does not attfinish if it gets hugeger or minusculeer.
We necessitate to go further and speedyer on security and renovelal. In such uncertain times, people want a state that will obtain attfinish of the huge asks, not a hugeger state that asks more from them. We necessitate to be operating at peak efficiency and strength. I apshow in the power of the state. I’m not interested in ideoreasonable arguments about whether it should be hugeger or minusculeer. I spropose want it to labor.
I saw the state at its best in our response to the uproars last summer. It was vibrant, sturdy and proposent. But for the most part, that’s not the state that most people will recognise.
And he says the state has become “overpimpolitent” and “flabby”. He cites set upning policy as an example.
I heard from a family business owner in Wales that produces homes for first-time buyers. During the adviseation defers and the lengthy set upning application, the cost of resources went up. The regulations held him back for so extfinished that he lost the site. Business unable to grow becaparticipate of red tape. Families unable to buy becaparticipate an overpimpolitent flabby state got in the way.
As Rowena Mason alerts in her pappraise, Starmer is also going to participate the speech to say man-made inalertigence (AI) should be doing more labor currently done by civil servants.
According to the rerelocates freed by No 10 in progress, Starmer will dispute that civil service reestablish should be shaped by the mantra:
No person’s substantive time should be spent on a task where digital or AI can do it better, rapider and to the same high quality and standard.
Starmer will be taking asks. Obviously alerters will want to ask him about the growing Labour revolt over the proposed illness and disability profit cuts, but hopefilledy someone will ask if this mantra should utilize to politicians too. You would not want AI running the handle (I presume?), but most ministers who turn up on the morning intersee programmes to regurgitate the No 10 line to obtain could easily be traded by an AI bot.
Here is the agfinisha for the day.
9.30am: Jonathan Reynelderlys, the business secretary, obtains asks in the Commons.
9.30am: NHS England rerentes its defercessitatest monthly carry outance figures.
10am: Helen Wantipathyly, the establisher attfinish minister, gives evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its module seeing at PPE protreatmentment.
After 10.30am: Lucy Powell, the directer of the Commons, produces a statement on next week’s Commons business.
Morning: Keir Starmer is doing a Q&A in Yorksengage where he will deinhabitr a low speech about reestablishing the state.
Noon: John Sthriveney, Scotland’s first minister, obtains asks at Holyrood.
Early afternoon: Kemi Badenoch is on a visit cforfeit Glasgow where she is anticipateed to speak to alerters.
And at some point today Shaprohibita Mahmood, the fairice secretary, is helderlying a encountering with the Sentencing Council to talk the directlines that Mahmood claims would carry out “two-tier” fairice.
If you want to reach out me, prent post a message below the line or message me on social media. I can’t read all the messages BTL, but if you put “Andrew” in a message aimed at me, I am more probable to see it becaparticipate I search for posts retaining that word.
If you want to flag someskinnyg up proposently, it is best to participate social media. You can accomplish me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X but individual Guardian journaenumerates are there, I still have my account, and if you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I will see it and react if vital.
I discover it very beneficial when readers point out misobtains, even inmeaningful typos. No error is too minuscule to accurate. And I discover your asks very engaging too. I can’t promise to react to them all, but I will try to react to as many as I can, either BTL or sometimes in the blog.
