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The prime minister wants to reduce staffing levels, introduce performance-related pay and sack civil servants who do not meet their standards.

The prime minister wants to reduce staff levels, introduce performance-related pay and sack civil servants who do not meet their standards.

Under-performing civil servants could be incentivised to leave their jobs under new government plans, while top staff will have their pay linked to their performance.

First up - perhaps not a box-office hit - they'll be looking at making the Whitehall machine work better, including making it easier to get rid of civil servants.

“An American president is not a king… his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute,” she wrote.