{"id":78448,"date":"2025-08-11T20:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78448"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:17:50","slug":"reform-uks-doge-efforts-save-more-than-100m-in-council-spending-in-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/reform-uks-doge-efforts-save-more-than-100m-in-council-spending-in-100-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK&#8217;s DOGE efforts &#8216;save more than \u00a3100m in council spending in 100 days&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1KigIc.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=157&amp;y=153&amp;s=109&amp;d=109\" alt=\"Reform's Zia Yusuf is leading a 'DOGE' unit - based on the Department of Government Efficiency set up by Tesla boss Elon Musk in the US - to try and cut spending by councils\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reform UK claims to have saved taxpayers more than \u00a3100million in council spending in 100 days since this year&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/uk-local-elections\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">local elections<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/reform-uk-s-doge-efforts-save-more-than-100m-in-council-spending-in-100-days\/ar-AA1KisKV?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=689a48cd5a1443c08fe6393ece94b0a1&amp;ei=32\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Reform UK claims to have saved taxpayers more than \u00a3100million in council spending in 100 days since this year&#8217;s\u00a0local elections. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Farage-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78449,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78448\/revisions\/78449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}