Steven Heywood<p>Given that Cabinet appointments — up to and including Premierships — have shelf lives measured in months, not years, and chase tomorrow's headline rather than next year's outcomes it's more probable that savings and more efficient and effective policymaking could be achieved by leaving the civil servants well alone and replacing the politicians with AI.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/12/ai-should-replace-some-work-of-civil-servants-under-new-rules-keir-starmer-to-announce" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/mar/12/ai-should-replace-some-work-of-civil-servants-under-new-rules-keir-starmer-to-announce</span></a></p>