Voters plead for jobs to be placed at heart of Tory levelling-up plans

Voters’ top priority for “levelling-up” is better jobs - and more of them, a poll reveals today. The YouGov study for the Trades Union Congress shows 49% of Britons think boosting the number ... Read More

Rachel Reeves could axe up to 50,000 civil service jobs in summer spending review - MSN

Rachel Reeves could axe up to 50,000 civil service jobs in summer ... dropped Tory plans to cut 66,000 civil service jobs. ... get to decide on the size of the civil service, ministers do. Read More

Rishi Sunak pledges to axe civil service jobs | The Standard

Rishi Sunak has committed to cutting Civil Service jobs as part of a “shake up” of the “bloated post-Covid state” that would also require senior civil servants to spend a year working ... Read More

Tory plans to axe Civil Service diversity jobs condemned as ‘ticking off culture war talking points’ - Yahoo News UK

Unions and charities have accused the government of “rattling off of a tick list of culture-war talking points” over its plans to axe equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) jobs in the Civil Service. Read More

Red Wall MP slams decision to drop levelling up pledge to move civil servants from London | Politics | News - Express.co.uk

Plans to scrap the shifting of thousands of civil service jobs away from London have come under fire from a Tory MP as ... Red Wall MP slams decision to drop levelling up pledge to move civil ... Read More

Jobs axe provides test for Tory promises to ‘level up’ regions

Fate of BondsHold steel castings plants hangs over 3 communities ... Read More

Minister rejected plans for national service two days before Tory pledge

Minister rejected plans for national service two days before Tory pledge Andrew Murrison had said there were ‘no plans’ to introduce national service Rishi Sunak has proposed the introduction ... Read More

Levelling up needs to be more than a slogan, say Tory MPs

"Levelling up needs to start at a much more basic level in places like Stoke-on-Trent." Conservative MPs talk of the need to combine physical improvements like better housing, high streets ... Read More

Tory's Levelling Up department offering salaries of £140,000 for regional directors

Tory's Levelling Up department offering salaries of £140,000 for regional directors ... The job news comes after it emerged some 2,921 council fatcats pocketed more than £100,000 last year. Read More

No targets will be set to judge if Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ pledge has been a success, minister reveals - The Independent

No targets will be set to assess if Boris Johnson’s “levelling up” pledge has been achieved, a minister has revealed – insisting the voters will decide. Read More

Tory plans to axe Civil Service diversity jobs condemned as ‘ticking off culture war talking points’ - The Independent

Tory plans to axe Civil Service diversity jobs condemned as ‘ticking off culture war talking points’ The FDA Union, which represents professionals and managers in public services, said Esther ... Read More