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Postal strike: Kenneth Clarke says Tories will privatise Royal Mail

Kenneth Clarke has said the Conservatives will privatise the Royal Mail Photo: HEATHCLIFF O'MALLEY Mr Clarke said the company needed private capital and private management to bring it up to date and change it from being "old-fashioned". Full Article at The Telegraph

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  1. Lord Mandelson
  2. UK Conservative Party
  3. Vauxhall

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Related Quotes

  1. It's quite clear that there's been a concerted effort by the management and certain leading figures in the Government, Lord Mandelson for instance, to provoke this action when they should be using their energies to conciliate and get Acas involved
    – Colin Burgon SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  2. We had an agreement with the CWU drafted on Tuesday night, around midnight
    SOURCE: BBC World 1 month ago
  3. Politicising it or dramatising it is absolutely useless
    Lord Mandelson – Lord Mandelson SOURCE: BBC World 1 month ago
  4. This is Lord Mandelson's revenge for our defeating him a few months ago over his plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
    – Colin Burgon SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
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