Many UK civil servants ‘deserve axe’

(BBC): Ex-trade minister Lord Digby Jones says he was "amazed" to discover how many civil servants "deserved the sack". He told a committee of MPs he thought the civil service could "frankly… be done with half as many" people. The ex-CBI chief described being a junior minister as "one of the most dehumanising and depersonalising experiences" anyone could have. Go to article