Civil Service Headcount Grows to Highest Level in 20 Years – Guido Fawkes

Civil Service Headcount Grows to Highest Level in 20 Years

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Latest quarterly civil service headcount figures reveal that there are now 550,000 pen-pushers as of March 2025, the highest in nearly 20 years under blob-lover Tony Blair in 2006. And 4,000 more since Labour came into power…

That’s also a 1% increase on March last year. Co-conspirators will remember the song and dance Labour made when they announced 1,200 redundancies in the Cabinet Office – though that’s just a quarter of how much the headcount has gone up by since Starmer took the keys to Downing Street. Labour’s promise to cut back the blob proving to be more hot air when they’re on track to hire civil servants more than they’re firing…