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Royal Mail is advising its customers to ‘beat the festive rush’ and get letters and parcels sent before the final posting dates. Christmas time at Royal Mail is sure to be the busiest time of the year, and the company wants to make sure all festive cards and letters are …

Royal Mail’s procedures state employees cannot open their mail at delivery offices without the prior authorisation of their manager.   It comes after Conservative MPs warned that any major disruption to postal voting may increase Labour’s chances of electoral success and leave the final election result open to legal challenge.  Studies …

Labour is expected to water down its radical environmental policy and other key pledges in the party’s election manifesto, amid concerns that they will prove undeliverable. Despite making climate change Labour’s number one priority, senior party figures have signalled that a commitment to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2030 …

Jeremy Corbyn would increase spending more than three times faster than Gordon Brown did, with Labour’s pledges amounting to an additional splurge of £1.2 trillion over five years, according to the Chancellor. The Conservatives will on Sunday publish a dossier setting out calculations that Sajid Javid said showed the “true cost of …

Mr Juncker has warned that EU-UK trade talks after the Brexit deal is ratified …. Royal Mail said: "The company is making this High Court application … Source link

Royal Mail is making an application to the high court to try to block workers from staging a strike over job security and employment conditions that it says risks having an impact on the UK’s general election. The company claims there were “potential irregularities” in the ballot of Communication Workers …

It may only be the start of November but already there is a Christmas scam which is costing people a lot of money. The festive season is now well and truly on the way which means people will be ordering presents online and more packages will be arriving in the post. …

The 2019 election will be the first in decades where both Labour and the Conservatives promise to turn on the public spending tap. The manifestos have yet to be released, but both have already made multibillion-pound pledges as the era of austerity comes to an end. Labour’s major spending pledges …

6.04pm GMT18:04 Afternoon summary Andrew Sparrow Jeremy Corbyn has challenged Johnson to TV debates on what has effectively been the first full day of campaigning since MPs agreed that there should be an election on Thursday 12 December. (See 4.06pm.) The bill approving the election is still being debated by …

Boris Johnson’s call for a general election in December is both a political and logistical gamble. Here are some potential challenges that organisers of a pre-Christmas election could face. Winter weather A carefully choreographed mid-December campaign could be wrecked by gales, heavy snow, ice and floods, ruining travel plans and …