Our friends at the Other Taxpayers’ Alliance have spotted that the right-wing Reform think-tank demolished the myth that we can combine deep public spending cuts with protection for front-line services. Its report, The Front Line, published today, argues:

“The basic cost of front line services means that the deficit cannot be sufficiently reduced without tackling the front line… Contrary to popular perception, the great majority of the public sector workforce are front line workers. Of the 1.4 million people working in the NHS, for example, only just over 200,000 provide administrative support.”

Reform’s response is to embrace such cuts with relish – and propose removing one million public sector jobs. You can read a more progressive alternative here.

Reform is a politically independent think tank.

Their Director is a former Head of the Political Section in the Conservative Research Department, and their former Deputy Director is Liz Truss, who is now the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for South West Norfolk.

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1. Ged Robinson

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