Plans to sell £1.5bn of UK government buildings based on ‘fantasy’

Jacob Rees-Mogg accused of pursuing agenda of ‘punishing civil servants who work from home’

Plans to sell off £1.5bn worth of government-owned buildings are based on “fantasy” job cuts to the civil service and ignore the role of hybrid working, critics have said.

They took aim at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s crackdown on what he called “under-utilised” property, under which the number of offices operating at the heart of Westminster would more than halved.

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