Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within – UK Constitutional Law Association

Posted August 28th, 2026 in news by sally

‘Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government but by the permanent Civil Service’. So he has set out some proposed changes for the civil service should Reform become the government. These proposals prompt us to ask: what is the civil service for?’

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UK Constitutional Law Association, 27th August 2026

Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org