Jobs for the boys under Labour14 Jul 2025 12:57
“Rachel Reeves has “opened the floodgates” to bumper civil servant pay raises after removing the need for ministers to approve of salaries above £150,000.
Under new civil service guidance issued by the Treasury, only earnings above £174,000 and bonuses more than £25,000 must be signed off, a rise from £150,000 and £17,500 respectively.
The change will affect 260 civil servants who earn between £150,000 and £200,000 a year and 30 mandarins who earn more than £200,000. A further 2,915 staff earn more than £100,000 a year.
William Yarwood, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group, said: “Taxpayers will be outraged that top civil servants are being handed even more generous pay raises with less oversight.
“This quiet rule change opens the floodgates to inflated salaries behind closed doors at a time when Whitehall should be making cuts.
“With the public sector already bloated and unaccountable, ministers must slam the brakes on these cosy pay arrangements and start defending the interests of taxpayers.”
Who voted for these morons ? Not me…….