Business secretary promises to keep post office network entirely in public hands as part of plan to allow private company to take 30% stake in the Royal Mail Lord Mandelson today promised to keep the post office network entirely in public hands as he unveiled a series of concessions intended to increase support for his plans for partial privatisation of the Royal Mail. The business secretary made ...

Royal Mail could be sold off - although the post office network will stay in state hands, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

The Post Office should be separated from the Royal Mail to give the business greater commercial freedom, the industry’s regulator suggested yesterday.

The future of the Post Office was called into question on Wednesday night, after MPs claimed it would be a "catastrophe" if it lost its link with the Royal Mail under privatisation plans.

The government has been accused of dithering over a decision to leave the Royal Mail in charge of a bank account used by four million pensioners and other benefit claimants - a judgment that could seal the fate of up to 3,000 post offices. An announcement on the future of the Post Office Card Account had been expected earlier this year but Royal Mail postmasters suspect Whitehall is preparing to h...

 from the CWU Plans by the new coalition government to privatise Royal Mail have been slammed by the CWU as “regurgitated failed policies.” Despite the company’s strong financial performance and newly agreed three-year modernisation strategy, the government has unveiled proposals to split Post Office Limited from Royal Mail Group and privatise the UK’s postal service. ...

Labour MP John Denham has warned that Government plans to privatise Royal Mail – which will be going before Parliament on Wednesday - could spell the end of the post office network. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In rushing through the privatisation of the Royal Mail, this Tory-led Government is giving no safeguards to our Post Office network. "These plans will result ...

Despite almost universal opposition the Government's programme of post office closures has been deadly effective.

WITH just over a month to go until Royal Mail opens consultation on the proposed closure of a number of local post office branches in Edinburgh, those opposed to the move are

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 pa...