Telegraph.co.uk Privatising Royal MailReutersThe government is trying to defuse anger over its plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. Postal workers are protesting in Westminster after it was announced that 30 percent of the company is to be sold off. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a …Row grows over Royal Mail …
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government faced a major revolt among his supporters and a union threat of a strike over plans to sell a stake in state-owned postal services operator Royal Mail. More: continued here
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