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By politics.co.uk staff Corus will receive £5 million from the government after the steel giant announced plans to lay off nearly 2,000 employees. A deterioration in demand across Europe and the United States was blamed for the decision to make the job cuts, affecting 500 workers in Scunthorpe, 375 in Teesside and up to 800… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson The government remains cagey on the whereabouts of the postal services bill, which may not now be debated in the Commons before the summer recess. It has attracted massive opposition from Labour backbenchers angered by business secretary Lord Mandelson’s determination to sell a minority stake in the Royal Mail to a foreign… Read more »
