Vince Cable, business secretary, is to announce on Thursday that he has commissioned Richard Hooper, author of a seminal report on the future of the postal service, to update his findings and help shape the coalition's ambitious privatisation plan for Royal Mail
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FT on 23rd Jun 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
THE future of the universal guarantee on postal services for the Highlands and Islands was being questioned last night after Business Secretary Vince Cable revealed that a for
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Scotsman on 13th Oct 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Vince Cable has vowed to push ahead with privatisation plans for Royal Mail, brushing aside union warnings that it would devastate the postal service and lead to higher prices
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FT on 10th Sep 2010 (via ft.com)
Plans to privatise Royal Mail have been revived by the Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable. Labour failed to push through the controversial sale last year after a 100-strong revolt by MPs. But the move is now expected to sail through the Commons because selling off Royal Mail is a core Lib Dem policy and the Conservatives also back privatisation plans. Under the proposal just over half of Royal...
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AndrewNutt on 20th May 2010 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
A ROW has broken out over the future of the Royal Mail after a leaked letter from Business Secretary Vince Cable suggested that remote parts of the UK could lose their univers
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Scotsman on 22nd Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Business Secretary Vince Cable says private buyers can own up to 90% of Royal Mail, while the Post Office may be mutualised.
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BBCPolitics on 13th Oct 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Two years ago, Richard Hooper wrote a report on Royal Mail which recommended part-privatising the service, among other measures. And today, with the official update to that report, we learn that his views have barely changed at all. If anything is different between then and now, it's that the need to modernise Royal Mail has become even more urgent. The number of letters they're sending ...
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Spectator on 10th Sep 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Royal Mail urgently needs private capital to resolve deepening problems and preserve the universal postal service, according to a government-commissioned report that will kick off the Con-Lib coalition's ambitious plan to privatise the state-owned operator
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FT on 9th Sep 2010 (via ft.com)
Two years ago, Richard Hooper wrote a report on Royal Mail which recommended part-privatising the service, among other measures. And today, with the official update to that report, we learn that his views have barely changed at all. If anything is different between then and now, it's that the need to modernise Royal Mail has become even more urgent. The number of letters they're sending ...
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Spectator on 10th Sep 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary has exposed how unnatural this Coalition really is, says Simon Heffer.
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Telegraph on 22nd Dec 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The Coalition government’s policies for the countryside are deeply worrying. Vince Cable has already announced that the proposed privatisation of Royal Mail will not include statutory protection of the commitment to a universal service, which will be at the discression of the unelected regulator. Increase in postal prices or reduction in deliveries and collections would be
