{"id":2347611,"date":"2026-03-27T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2347611"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:46:32","slug":"bbc-breakfast-royal-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bbc-breakfast-royal-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Breakfast: Royal Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-Cvn8dDwqs?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Great to speak to BBC Breakfast this morning about the meltdown in Royal Mail&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>220 million letters on track to be delivered late this year. Royal Mail bosses admitted the service is inadequate. Now they have two weeks to publish a plan, and the Business and Trade Committee will recall them again and again if it doesn&#8217;t improve.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for news from Liam Byrne MP \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGTc043Wp5uGXjXWQdqvJVg?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>New book: www.inequalityofwealth.co.uk<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@liam.byrne.mp<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liambyrnemp\/<br \/>\nSubstack: https:\/\/liambyrnemp.substack.com<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LiamByrneMPHodgeHill\/?locale=en_GB<br \/>\nTwitter: @liambyrnemp<br \/>\nBlueSky: liambyrnemp@bsky.social<br \/>\nLinkIN: https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/rt-hon-liam-byrne-mp-2839a924<br \/>\nWebsite: www.liambyrnemp.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Liam Byrne is the MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill &#038; Solihull North, Chair of the House of Commons Business &#038; Trade Committee, and the Global Parliamentary Network of the IMF &#038; World Bank. He is Honorary Professor of Social Science at the University of Birmingham, a Visiting Fellow at St Antony&#8217;s College, Oxford and a proud patron of the National Association of the Children of Alcoholics.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-Cvn8dDwqs\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great to speak to BBC Breakfast this morning about the meltdown in Royal Mail&#8217;s services. 220 million letters on track to be delivered late this year. Royal Mail bosses admitted the service is inadequate. Now they have two weeks to publish a plan, and the Business and Trade Committee will recall them again and again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774608391_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347613,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347611\/revisions\/2347613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}