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Thank heavens for Jeff Randall. In all the coverage of last week’s devastating Government report on the collapse of our postal services, nowhere was there any mention of the key part played in the disaster by the EU - until Mr Randall broke media silence in Friday’s Daily Telegraph.Yet the report itself made no secret of the fact that the trouble has been our dutiful compliance with EU postal directives, compelling us to “open up the market” by allowing 19 private operators to cream off all those parts of Royal Mail’s operations which enabled it to run at a profit.

To make it worse, these companies take the money for collecting mail from big businesses - mainly bulk postings - but then rely on Royal Mail to deliver it, at a knockdown price.

Failure of Royal Mail: Booker

Story covered by EU Referendum on Friday