Labour is determined to wreck the public sector by entrenching low productivity while increasing costs. The civil service is bloated – there are nearly 100,000 more of them than in 2015. Our productivity is low. Amazingly, since 1997, public sector productivity has fallen by an average of 0.1 per cent per year, an unprecedented problem in a technological age. Meanwhile, the private sector’s productivity has been growing, albeit too slowly. This ends up costing you money. As the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pointed out on the campaign trail, public sector productivity is about 5 per cent l…
