British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that ministers cut 91,000 people employed in the civil service to free up billions in tax cuts, the Daily Mail reported.

“Every pound the government takes from taxpayers is money they can spend on their own priorities, on their own lives,” the Daily Mail quoted Johnson as saying at a cabinet meeting.

He instructed members of his team to redouble their efforts to ease financial pressures on struggling families. Ministers are to draw up plans within a month to reduce the number of civil servants, which will save around £3.5 billion a year, the newspaper says.

It notes that Johnson’s instruction followed his announcement to parliament that he and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak would have something to say in the coming days about helping voters amid the current sharp rise in the country’s cost of living.