Although Starmer project is fragile, it takes one giant leap: to reinstall the British state | Martin Kittel
WThe government of Hen Keir Starmer finally reaches the next general election threshold, scheduled for 2028-29, the hopes of the Labor Party will not depend on the battlefields in Ukraine, but the Starmer diplomacy well proves that it is in this conflict at the present time. Instead, the fate of the Labor Party will be determined in the long term here at home, in the way all elections are always.
As often the case, the result will be determined within four years by whether the voters feel more safely than they did in the past. If they do, they may vote for work. If they do not, they may resort to conservatives and reform the United Kingdom. The government’s preoccupation with this predatory explains why Downing Street wants the Prime Minister A letter on the civil service On Thursday to be considered a specific option for the direction.
In his speech, Starmer is expected to make plans for the most radical restructuring of the British state for decades. It is said that the plans are widely scattered, which are difficult old and right assumptions, and exceeds the ancient argument over the size of the country that dominated British policy in the forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s arrival to power. Many of the previous repair strategies, the last of which is Michael Goff. However, with its big majority, Starmer is especially good to convert his proposals into reality.
Starmer’s central disagreement is that although civil service today is greater than ever, it is less effective and reliable. Its lights ranges further than Whitol. More than 5 million people It is now working in the service of the central and local government, including NHS: about one million more than 2000. Partially due to Covid, Four times the number of number Work in NHS England and the Ministry of Health compared to 2010, when waiting lists were shorter and General satisfaction is higher.
Cutting numbers, however, are only one of Starmer’s expected plans. The Prime Minister will also announce new incentives The failure of the civil service staff to resignSensing the best jobs in Whitehall, which is a slowdown in the use of external sources from government departments to the organizers, and the reorganization of NHS England, and a significant increase in data roles and AI.
On Thursday, the pre -bills of Starmer’s speech as a discourse on civil service reform may have worked to withhold its broader importance. Reality, however, is that it is a really epic thing. It comes to whether the Labor Party can make the British government in the twenty -first century at all.
Until the same speech is connected, the main text to understand what Starmer believes is to do 1500 words He wrote to the cabinet ministers last month. This message, which clearly reflects the Population of the Chief of Staff No. 10, Morgan Maksini, was an invitation to the weapon for the rest of this parliament. He said that the old roads failed and are very slow. The politicians became “satisfied with the role of the market and the state.” The audience is “hungry for change and disruption.” The message ends with a request to “wholesale reform” to provide security and renewal.
Today’s intervention must be understood in this ambitious context. And it means big things. It is not only about changing Whitehall, civil service numbers or artificial intelligence, although it is partly related to all of this. In its root, though, the speech revolves around the necessity of changing how the government works in the new technological world. This was something Dominic Kamings from right after 2019. This time the goal of the left center, to make the state better to do good for those who depend on it-which, in one way or another, is most of us.
There should be no dispute that this is a necessary action. Yugov poll last fall I found only 6 % believed that public services in the United Kingdom were in a good state, with 74 % ruled in bad condition. The bad administration considered the first reason, not the lack of spending.
Part of this is due to Britain’s exit from the European Union, which, away from cutting the red tape as it has been pretended, has already increased. Covid made another severe pressure. However, with civil service numbers now more than 115000 is higher by Britain’s exit from the European UnionThere is no convincing sign that more civil service employees lead to better results. Better civil service management is irrational when public financial resources are narrow, as they are today.
Government sources are determined to do so – although “A saw project“The others have given the initiative – it is wrong to equate what Starmer says with” government competence management “to Willon Musk in Washington.” We are not Duj. We do not practice the saw. We are not hostile to the state. This is the government of the center left. It provides the strength of the state to make souls better. But the state must change. Civil employee employees need to realize that they will not have a group of ministers most supportive of civil service more than they do today. “
This is the line that Starmer and Mcsweeey take. The Minister of Ministers also presented the effects of these arguments on these arguments Media tour of the weekend. But testing any policy and any speech is whether it can be placed smoothly as possible and whether it produces desirable results for citizens. Here, the government faces major problems.
It is not the least of these is the amount of absolute propaganda for musk and the president of Argentina, Javier Millie, because of their famous teasp and burns, The brand approach to the saw To the government. Miley and hold the state, while the Labor Party says. However, it may be very easy to equal, so that Thinktank Thinktank, which is located near Mcsweeey, has now done.
Even if the similarities are essentially wrong, as MCFADNEN argues this weekend, such comparisons can abide. It can be a gift for activists against politics, including in unions. These are very emotional issues, for good reasons.
However, everyone, including unions, knows that the world has changed since the twentieth century. The private sector is transformed through new technologies that bring new forms of manufacturing products, delivery, work and consumption. The public world cannot sit and pretend that it is not affected, or that there are some magic ways to re -establish the past.
Starmer’s message to the cabinet was run with two ideas: the case of disruption of old methods, and the public’s passion for improving security. Disorder and security are not natural family covers. Starmer’s challenge is proof that it can be. If he succeeds, the Labor Party can look at the upcoming elections with something like caution. If he fails, the future will definitely belong to others.