• Reform Ahead of Tories in Every Poll This Week as Shadow Cabinet Meltdown Continues

    Updated: 2025-01-31 14:40:20
    This week, every single poll (seven of them) has shown Reform pulling ahead of the Tories, including yesterday’s FindOutNow poll putting them in the lead, a solid six points ahead of the official Opposition. Reform’s range is holding steady between 23% and 27%, Labour’s between 23% and 28%, while the Tories are stuck between 20% and 24%. […] Read the rest

  • British Public Opposes Chagos Surrender Two-to-One

    Updated: 2025-01-31 11:11:05
    Electoral Calculus this week polled 2,027 Brits on Labour’s approach to foreign affairs. Respondents were given the background on the Chagos surrender: “The government plans to hand over the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius and also to pay Mauritius a reported £90 million each year to lease Diego Garcia, a key Western defence base on the islands.[…] Read the rest

  • Just Half of Civil Servants Pursue ‘Efficiency’, Only 65% Say They Are ‘Productive’

    Updated: 2025-01-31 00:42:30
    , Just Half of Civil Servants Pursue Efficiency’ , Only 65 Say They Are Productive’ mdi-fullscreen The latest annual survey of civil servants shines some light on why our pen-pushers are no longer world-leading” Just 52 pursue efficiency” as a priority , and only 65 say they are 90-100 productive.  Something about a tepid bath of decline’ comes to mind Meanwhile , 20 of civil servants want to leave as soon as possible , only 62 would recommend the job , and a mere 42 understand what a modern civil service” even looks . like Keir Starmer†s attempt at a Cummings-style crackdown promising reform then promptly penning a grovelling apology to Whitehall likely doesn’t help For all Starmer†s talk of efficiency , 8221 the civil service continues to balloon Whitehall’s headcount is now 515,000

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