On reflection - shouldn’t an effective minister have been able to get his department to do what he wanted?
Richard Barfield
‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister @alcarns.bsky.social
TLDR: Money already spent on projects with poor outcomes doesn’t justify spending more on those projects. Instead, spend scarce funds on new projects with better outcomes
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Exclusive: Carns, who quit last week, says he was angered by unwillingness to confront sunk costs of legacy programmes