Professions, heal yourselves – only you can make the public sector better value for money | Simon Jenkins

Rishi Sunak should complete Thatcher’s challenge and ask doctors, barristers, teachers and academics to embrace change

Jeremy Hunt’s budget statement last week might calm markets. It is unlikely to calm its chief clients: the public services. Here, the best Hunt could claim is that they were warned. After 10 years of austerity and two of pandemic chaos, all sectors other than health now face real terms cuts. Hunt is not going to help them any more. They must help themselves.

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