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Matters of Interest: The size of the Civil Service, Digital ID & Compulsory Voting

Matters of Interest: The size of the Civil Service, Digital ID & Compulsory Voting

Update: 2025-10-29
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In this week's Matters of Interest, Richard reflects on the historic size of the Civil Service and considers whether Reform's plan to reduce it is really the solution to getting things done in Britain. Lee thinks back to the noughties when Labour last tried to introduce ID cards and asks what Keir Starmer could learn from Tony Blair. And the pair discuss - and disagree! - on whether compulsory voting is a good idea.

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Since Attlee & Churchill is a podcast about post-war British politics - literally since Attlee & Churchill - and is hosted by Lee David Evans, an historian of the Conservative Party, and Richard Johnson, an historian of the Labour Party.

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Matters of Interest: The size of the Civil Service, Digital ID & Compulsory Voting

Matters of Interest: The size of the Civil Service, Digital ID & Compulsory Voting