Josh Smith: We Conservatives must recast the civil service and rewire the state

Josh Smith: We Conservatives must recast the civil service and rewire the state

Josh Smith is Director of Policy at NextGenTories, the campaign to transform the Conservative Party and win back the support of working age people. The Civil Service’s capacity for inertia is nothing short of a scandal. I’m friends with many civil servants, and while their stories about colleagues who haven’t done any work in 20 years or those who disappear for six months of full sick pay, only to move directly into another civil service job, c…