\u201cThe idea that we should have a sales force around the world helping business is never really that effective,\u201d he told POLITICO. <\/p>\n
He added that businesses really want “low tax, easy employment rules and well-designed fluid regulations,” adding that the \u201cidea that the government can somehow \u2018do business\u2019 is nuts and is all that\u2019s wrong with the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trade veteran David Henig, a former government adviser now at the European Center for International Political Economy said he “would expect this to be taking a lot of staff time and energy.” <\/p>\n
“Obviously fewer numbers may mean choices in what to prioritize,” he said. “I do think this government has undervalued the role of DBT, [as] implementing the trade and industrial strategies are crucial to U.K. growth.” <\/p>\n
A government spokesperson confirmed it plans to “reduce the department in size.\u201d While \u201cno department-wide recruitment freeze has been put in place, the changes are designed to maximize [its] efficiency, ensuring [they] have the right expertise in the right place, while also delivering for British business,” they added.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said Chancellor Rachel Reeves had allocated \u00a3150 million to fund an employee exit scheme supporting \u201ca leaner and more efficient civil service, helping to reduce [Whitehall-wide] administration costs by 15 percent by the end of the decade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe idea that we should have a sales force around the world helping business is never really that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,12226,3040,93662,93663,79,263,5495,264,265,93664,3195,268,12749,125,5677,620,130,376,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-161825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-david-lammy","10":"tag-department","11":"tag-department-for-business-and-trade","12":"tag-dominic-johnson","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-employment","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-growth","18":"tag-health-professionals-workforce","19":"tag-industry","20":"tag-investment","21":"tag-rachel-reeves","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-services","24":"tag-tax","25":"tag-trade","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}