Listening to Pat McFadden read out Peter Mandelson’s statement on the future of the Royal Mail in the Commons, I got the impression it was going down far better with the Tory MPs than with Labour ones. Edward Leigh, the Conservative rightwinger who tried to privatise the Post Office when he was a minister 15 years ago, said: “I welcome New Labour to the Thatcherite wing of the Conservative …
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