Plans to sell £1.5bn of UK government buildings based on ‘fantasy’

Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of pursuing agenda of punishing civil servants who work from home'

Plans to sell off 1.5bn worth of government-owned buildings are based on fantasy" job cuts to the civil service and ignore the role of hybrid working, critics have said.

They took aim at Jacob Rees-Mogg's crackdown on what he called under-utilised" property, under which the number of offices operating at the heart of Westminster would more than halved.