Staggering number of civil service jobs to be slashed and replaced by AI revealed by Rachel Reeves

AT least 10,000 jobs will be cut in the Civil Service – with AI taking over key roles, Rachel Reeves has declared.

The Chancellor said the axe will fall on “back-office” staff in a £2billion-a-year cost-cutting drive.

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She confirmed departments will be ordered to slash administrative budgets by 15 per cent by the end of the decade, starting with a ten per cent cut by 2028.