Sky News PM Meets New Cabinet After Facing Down RebelsSky News, UKThey are expected to discuss concessions on a plan to part-privatise Royal Mail that has provoked an angry reaction from many Labour politicians. It comes at the end of a tumultuous week for Mr Brown. Eleven ministers walked out of …
Read More »Mail sorting offices are closed for good – Shropshire Star
Mail sorting offices are closed for goodShropshire Star, UKTwo Shropshire Royal Mail delivery offices were today closed with 16 staff moved and a further four made redundant. Operations at Ellesmere and Church Stretton sorting offices were transferred to Oswestry and Craven Arms as part of a Royal Mail move to … …
Read More »Hostilities over, but Gordon Brown is warned: 'We'll be watching you' – This is London
ABC News Hostilities over, but Gordon Brown is warned: 'We'll be watching you'This is London, UKGordon Brown was put on probation today as he tried to move on from the Labour leadership crisis with a package of reforms and more hints of a climbdown on Royal Mail. The Prime Minister called …
Read More »Proposals to part privatise Royal Mail shelved – The Herald
Proposals to part privatise Royal Mail shelvedThe Herald, UKThe part privatisation of the Royal Mail is to be put on hold by the government in an attempt to placate backbench anger against Gordon Brown. In what is being anticipated as a huge victory for rebel backbenchers over Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, …
Read More »PM Meets New Cabinet After Quashing Rebels – Sky News
guardian.co.uk PM Meets New Cabinet After Quashing RebelsSky News, UKThey are expected to discuss concessions on a plan to part-privatise Royal Mail that has provoked an angry reaction from many Labour politicians. It comes at the end of a tumultuous seven days for Mr Brown. Eleven ministers walked out of the …
Read More »Royal Mail plans quietly dropped – Politics.co.uk
Politics.co.uk Royal Mail plans quietly droppedPolitics.co.uk, UKBy Alex Stevenson The government may be hoping to lose its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the post. politics.co.uk has learned the expectation from Labour party backbenchers is the sale of a stake in the postal services provider will be … More: continued …
Read More »Viewpoint: Government must put its stamp on the post – guardian.co.uk
Viewpoint: Government must put its stamp on the postguardian.co.uk, UKLong before it became a political football, the government solicited some sage advice on how to handle the Royal Mail. The worst thing it could do was nothing at all, warned the former communications regulator Richard Hooper. Regardless of the rights … …
Read More »Fault-lines after the EU vote – guardian.co.uk
Fault-lines after the EU voteguardian.co.uk, UKThat would be fine if a different leader followed your argument for a change in policy by accelerating parliamentary reform, backing down on the Royal Mail, ID cards and Trident, acting on youth unemployment and housing. The problem is that Labour … More: continued here
Read More »Royal Mail in threat to close pension scheme – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail in threat to close pension schemeTelegraph.co.uk, United KingdomRoyal Mail has warned it may be forced to close its final salary pension scheme to existing members if plans to part-privatise the group fail. By Jamie Dunkley, Pensions Correspondent Donald Brydon, chairman of the postal group, said he is ready …
Read More »Royal Mail privatisation to be postponed (The New Statesman)
Ministers are set to postpone plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail after Gordon Brown’s weakened position and the low level of the bids attracted raised new question marks over the policy. More: continued here
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