Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 13 May 2022

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1. 90,000 civil service jobs to go

Boris Johnson has told the cabinet to create a plan to cut roughly 90,000 civil service jobs, reducing the size of departmental workforces to 2016 levels. The PM told the Daily Mail that the plan was “to cut the cost of government to reduce the cost of living” and sources suggest that about one in five posts will go. The FDA, the union for civil servants, said the “ill-thought-out” proposal could affect services such as passport processing and healthcare. Labour accused Johnson of “pointless rhetoric and lack of action”.

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