Darren Jones to make it easier to sack senior civil servants under plans to ‘rewire’ Whitehall

Chief secretary to prime minister will also bring in small, risk-taking task forces to target specific problems

Keir Starmer's chief enforcer Darren Jones says he is going to bust the sludge" in Whitehall by bringing in risk-taking task forces to deal with problems and the ability to sack senior civil servants who do not deliver.

Jones, who is chief secretary to the prime minister, said civil servants should feel jeopardy" if they are underperforming - highlighting that only seven out of 7,000 senior civil servants are on improvement plans.