Keir Starmer wants to 'rewire' Whitehall, which he has claimed is too 'comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline' ...

The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 created a nonpartisan service of experts whose purpose was to serve the American people and the Constitution. Their hiring was to be based on merit alone.

The economic development package signed by Gov. Maura Healey on Nov. 20 “codified the largest reform of the Civil Service system in decades,” according to the Massachusetts Municipal Association.

Sir Keir is expected to expand on his plans for civil service reform at an event on Thursday. After Pat McFadden, who runs the Cabinet Office, unveiled some of the agenda at the weekend ...

The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 created a nonpartisan service of experts whose purpose was to serve the American people and the Constitution. Their hiring was to be based on merit alone.