Lord Mandelson will today try and buy off a Labour rebellion by offering concessions to MPs opposed to plans to partprivatise Royal Mail.

So Peter Mandelson announces that Royal Mail is to be part privatised. Cue much teeth gnashing / soul searching / resignations / bemoaning of the loss of a national icon, bla bla. Come on folks, let’s get real about this. Royal Mail, much like Woolworths, MFI and plenty of others too, is a symbol of

New Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was embroiled in controversy on two fronts last night over the future of the Royal Mail and whether planned employment rights, including family-friendly reforms, will go ahead.

New Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was embroiled in controversy on two fronts last night over the future of the Royal Mail and whether planned employment rights, including family-friendly reforms, will go ahead.

Peter Mandelson today insisted that the government would press ahead with plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail despite the prospect of the biggest backbench rebellion since Gordon Brown became prime minister. A total of 67 Labour MPs, including the former ministers Frank Dobson, Malcolm Wicks and Michael Meacher, have signed a Commons early day motion (EDM) which says selling a minority stake in...

Peers were surprised by business secretary Peter Mandelson's decision to introduce a divisive bill for part-privatisation of the Royal Mail.

Lord Mandelson's plan to partprivatise the Royal Mail has triggered the resignation of a Government aide in protest the latest sign of a Labour rebellion against the plans.

Reading over the notes sent out by Peter Mandelson and Pat McFadden to the PLP and constituencies, it’s clear to me that the government has not yet made its case for this 1/3rd privatisation of Royal Mail. As a matter of course, let us be clear that privatisation is what is involved, whether we say

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, was today told that he needs to change the "disastrous" system of postal services regulation if he wants to get his plans for reform of the Royal Mail through parliament. Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister and one of the most prominent of the 140 Labour MPs opposing Mandelson's plans for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail, criticised the gove...

Mark Milner Industrial Editor Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, today said he hoped the government's plan to recruit a strategic partner for Royal Mail would bring a "gale force of fresh air" to the state-owned company's management culture. With the government already prepared to take on responsibility for Royal Mail's ballooning pension fund deficit, Mandelson said it was too...