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Reform's Danny Kruger vows to scrap the Cabinet Office, the 12,000-strong 'blob within the blob' and abolish Tony Blair's unelected clerical class that really run Britain

Danny Kruger, pictured in August, wants "hungry, innovative professionals" rather than "time-servers waiting for their pension" running government departments, he told the Policy Exchange think tank.
Danny Kruger, pictured in August, wants "hungry, innovative professionals" rather than "time-servers waiting for their pension" running government departments, he told the Policy Exchange think tank.
Tony Blair, whose reforms Kruger says were carried out "in a fit of absence of mind.
Tony Blair, whose reforms Kruger says were carried out "in a fit of absence of mind.

In a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, published on his Substack, Reform's Danny Kruger argues that Britain is not run by its elected politicians but by an unelected 'clerical class' of officials, lawyers and judges born of Tony Blair's constitutional revolution, carried out 'in a fit of absence of mind'.

Danny Kruger, Reform UK's government-preparation chief, wants 'hungry, innovative professionals', not 'time-servers waiting for their pension', running departments

'GOD as he was rightly known': Danny Kruger blames mandarin Sir Gus O'Donnell for the 2010 law empowering officials

Replacing the 2010 Act, Reform would affirm civil service 'impartiality, but not the independence', letting ministers appoint officials directly

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