Ministerial aide Jim McGovern quits government over Royal Mail privatisation plans (Guardian Unlimited)

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A ministerial aide quit the government today over Gordon Brown’s plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail. The resignation of Jim McGovern was Brown’s first over the proposals, announced by Lord Mandelson yesterday. McGovern stood down as parliamentary private secretary to Pat McFadden, the postal affairs minister, because he could not support proposals he said “beggared belief”. Brown …

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