Leading backbencher says to call vote without compromising would be kamikaze move Gordon Brown will be forced to back down over plans for the partial privatisation of the Royal Mail, a Labour MP claimed today. John Grogan, one of the backbenchers leading the campaign against the government's proposal to sell …
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