Sir Keir Starmer has launched a new drive to bring freethinking innovators into the heart of Whitehall, echoing efforts by the arch-disrupter Dominic Cummings to hire “weirdos and misfits” to redesign government.
Salaries of up to £200,000 a year are being offered to potential recruits, in a highly selective process intended to bypass career civil servants in favour of “elite technical talent” drawn from industry and academia.
Cummings, former prime minister Boris Johnson’s chief of staff, famously went out in search of outsiders to work with him in government and his mission has, only half-jokingly, been picked up by Starmer’s government.
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