The Government will stage a full-scale £4billion privatisation of Royal Mail, it has emerged.

At least 10 per cent of Royal Mail shares will be reserved for employees when the postal operator is privatised, Vince Cable has announced

Asked whether the Prime Minister was worried about the prospect of several thousand job losses in Royal Mail, the PMS replied that the Royal Mail had set out their position on that story. It was his understanding that the Royal Mail had said they had no plans for 16,000 job cuts. In terms of staffing at Royal Mail, it was an operational matter for the company and the PMS would leave it to them to ...

Junior minister Jim McGovern has announced his resignation over the government's plans to sell off a significant part of Royal Mail.

The Government has defended plans to sell off part of the Royal Mail amid dire warnings of the "severe" impact on pensions.

The government may be hoping to lose its plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the post.

Opposition to government plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail increased as the Liberal Democrats said yesterday the government could not count on the party's support to pass a law which has inspiredmore than 150 Labour MPs to rebel The government wants to sell 30% of Royal Mail despite a Labour manifesto commitment to keep the service in public hands, and looked likely to be able to do so a...

Postmen could be offered as much as 20 per cent of the shares in Royal Mail in an audacious bid by ministers to buy their support for the state-controlled organisation's controversial privatisation.

The European Commission has opened a investigation into the UK government's plans to privitise the Royal Mail and relieve the postal operator of a pension deficit of £8bn.

Postal workers are holding a number of rallies across the UK to express their opposition to the government's plans to part privatise Royal Mail