Reform leader Nigel Farage has vowed to run a council rescue plan based on Elon Musk’s US “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge).

“We look at the millions a year being spent in many cases on consultants, we look at money being spent on climate change, on areas that county councils frankly shouldn’t even be getting involved in,” he told The Telegraph.

On top of consultants and net zero, Reform’s mini-Doge units will also axe diversity roles, working from home, and what they call “inefficient” pothole schemes.

“So we want to get the auditors in, look at long-term contracts, ask why they’re signed up to, for example, pothole providers that aren’t doing the business. And a change of culture, no more work from home, increased productivity from staff,” he said.

In terms of pothole repair, Mr Farage has vowed to scrap ‘wasteful contracts’ that are “failing” motorists.

Mr Farage claimed that Reform’s Doge units will ‘audit existing highway repair contracts and demand answers from councils paying above the odds for second-rate work’.

(Pi: Highways News)