On Monday I used this column to ask who, if anyone, will have the courage to take a chainsaw to the British state. It’s an inelegant metaphor, but an effective one as Argentina’s Javier Milei and Elon Musk in the US revel in the process of hacking away at state infrastructure. Milei won his election after waving an actual chainsaw around on stage, as a theatrical warmup act ahead of his radical (and effective) reform agenda.

Keir Starmer will today set out his plans to reform the state, with aides apparently referring to this agenda as “project........

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