Nearly one million public sector worker jobs have been axed since 2010, new official figures show.

Seven years ago 6.4 million worked in the public sector now, under PM Theresa May , it is 5.44 million.

Among the losses are 164,000 posts in education, 44,000 in the police force and 41,000 in the Armed Forces.

The NHS workforce has grown marginally by 4%, but 134,000 posts have gone in other health and social work and 186,000 in public admin.

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Office of National Statistics figures show public sector workers now make up just 16.9 per cent of the total labour force, the lowest proportion since 1947, the year ­before the NHS was founded.

Public sector worker union GMB blames Tory cuts, privatisation and outsourcing for the job losses.

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