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Lower taxes and better public services? Yes,I believe we can deliver As he prepares to lead the Tory Party, the Shadow Chancellor unveils in the Mail his manifesto for change
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Daily Mail
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November 3, 2003| Author:
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DO YOU remember the Yes Minister TV series, watching Sir Humphrey
take every opportunity to inflate his already vast number of civil
servants? For this Government, it isn't so much a comedy as a
training video. Last year alone, the Government added 27,000
bureaucrats - equivalent to one quarter of the British Army.
What is this new model army of additional bureaucrats doing all
day? It is setting targets for the public services.
The National Audit Office says there are too many targets.
Ministers privately admit there are too many targets. But the army of
bureaucrats is remorselessly engaged ...
