Stephen Kelly
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621 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Stephen Kelly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They become saboteurs.
They forget the enemy's always on the outside and they start picking kind of internal turf fights.
It's just crazy.
And what we sought to do was say, actually, the reason why you came through the turnstiles at Horse Guards or Caxton House was to improve public service.
You've got that mission, that zest.
for better public services serving citizens and we want to reconnect you to that and we want to actually eliminate all the wastage all the noise the bureaucracy and create efficiencies to allow you to do that and and then what we did and we measure this and actually had the National Water Office auditor and I sat in front of Margaret Hodge of the Public Accounts Committee and Meg Hillier I don't know half a dozen times and
To say we had to measure.
So number one, we had a vision.
Number two, and that was a vision for Britain, why it's important, why we need to save money.
And then we connected it to real life stuff.
So we said every 10 billion pound we save is half a million junior nurses salaries per year.
It's three million primary school places.
Yeah, it's like a massive impact on the fire services.
And it gives the Chancellor of the Exchequer huge latitude if we're making great savings in the civil service and public service.
Number one, to improve the services, but most importantly, to actually give the Chancellor latitude to invest in public services that we're all proud of.
And that's the genesis of why we started in the civil service in the first place.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
And before I joined, this is back in probably about 2010-ish, just around this sort of election period.
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