It’s a simple fact of politics that many measures which would save money in the medium-to-long term incur costs in the short term. Normally, this point is brought up in relation to public service reform – e.g. Gove’s Swedish Schools agenda. But today’s FT highlights a similar effect in relation to public sector redundancies.
Peter Hoskin
The costs that come before savings
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