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 Cabinet …Video: Gordon Brown repaid…
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 here
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 … More: continued here
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
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 to … More: continued here
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
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.K. government intends to continue pushing its bill to modernize Royal Mail through parliament, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spokesman said Monday, but it remains unclear when it will sell a minority stake in the state-owned postal service. More: continued here
The next big threat to the Prime Minister if he survives the current leadership crisis will be the plan to partprivatise Royal Mail. More: continued here
Gordon Brown is hoping to win much-needed friends by postponing plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, according to reports. More: continued here
Beleaguered Brown faces new showdown over Royal Mail plans More: continued here