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Return Royal Mail to public ownership, ministers urged

MINISTERS faced a chorus of calls in the Commons yesterday to end Britain’s rip-off postal privatisation.

On National Postal Workers’ Day, Labour MP and former Parcel Force worker Hugh Gaffney squared up to Business Minister Margot James, asking: “Will the minister renationalise Royal Mail?”

She said a return to public ownership was “not the answer.”

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