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Job-loss threat is 'overblown'

Reaction to swingeing public sector job cuts has been ‘overblown’, and most head count reductions could be managed through ‘natural wastage’, a consultancy has claimed.

Reaction to swingeing public sector job cuts has been ‘overblown', and most head count reductions could be managed through ‘natural wastage', a consultancy has claimed.

Simon Irwin, research analyst at Liberum, claimed the scale of the public sector job cuts facing Britain was ‘actually quite small' – with just 0.1% of total jobs across the sector due to be axed this year.

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