JACOB Rees-Mogg yesterday unveiled his image of a Whitehall “ghost office” as he dug in above his marketing campaign from doing the job from house.
The minister experienced been still left open-mouthed to obtain the Cupboard Place of work abandoned at 11am on what must have been a fast paced weekday.
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Desks and pcs had been unused and notices caught on the partitions dated from ahead of Covid-19 struck in early 2020.
Mr Rees-Mogg, Minister for Federal government Performance, accused the absent employees of pouring money down the drain by letting their swanky places of work stand empty.
He explained to The Solar: “It looked as if the business office hadn’t been applied in two many years.
“Thousands of kilos of taxpayers’ dollars is currently being used, and both they need to be there or not. If not, we ought to set any individual in this house.”
Talking on a pay a visit to to the Eurotunnel in Folkestone, Kent, yesterday as portion of his Brexit Possibilities portfolio, he extra: “I wrote on the whiteboard declaring, ‘Can we reallocate this area mainly because you evidently really don’t have to have it?’”
Mr Rees-Mogg has been branded “creepy” for leaving notes on the office environment desks of staff even now at house.
He also compiled a departmental league desk to display what percentage of personnel were being again.
The Department for Education was bottom with 25 per cent, adopted by the Division for Operate and Pensions at 27 for every cent.
Schooling Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has demanded his staff members return for four days a week. Mr Rees-Mogg mentioned civil service bosses should “lead by example” and get back again to their departments.
He included: “If you are in, you know what difficulties there are.
“You never have to organise a Zoom connect with to uncover out.”
He warned the civil services experienced “grown as well big” and claimed numbers must be minimize.