Lord Mandelson's plans to part-privatise Royal Mail will today receive a significant setback, when an all-party Commons inquiry lambasts the business secretary's approach as "entirely unacceptable".
A unanimous report from the business select committee today warns that the government has not yet "made its case" for its plan to sell a 30 per cent stake in the state-owned postal operator to a foreign rival.
The report will provide ammunition for the revolt massing on Labour's backbenches against the partprivatisation, to be voted on by MPs before the summer. The Tories last night suggested they would maintain support for the bill, placing Gordon Brown in the difficult position of relying on opposition support to carry a measure opposed by much of the Labour movement.
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MPs' report to lambast Royal Mail plan
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MPs' report to lambast Royal Mail plan
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