Was the Royal Mail sold off too cheaply?

Was the British public betrayed by an overzealous government in the Royal Mail sell-off? Emily Hohler reports.

The sell-off of the Royal Mail an "ode to privatisation" has been an "extraordinary success", says Fraser Nelson in The Daily Telegraph. It was hugely over-subscribed and in the end around 690,000 investors were allocated shares worth £750.

The decision that those who applied for more than £10,000 of shares would get nothing was a "brilliant idea" that embodies popular capitalism. Protests are now almost "inaudible" a reminder that the "British public is moving to the right just when [Ed] Miliband is moving to the left".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.