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The Rt Hon Peter Mandelson MP
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modernisation of the Post Office Counters
the departure of existing clients and virtua iminating
the possibi y of attracting new ones. The damage to the
idence subpostmasters and the knock-on effect of
network closures 11 produce political fall-out, no matter
how carefully we try to handle it. The reduction in the
network will reduce our ability to extend social banking and
modern government into the very communities we most wish to
target. Our relations with Fujitsu, a major inward investor
into the UK over the past decade, would be severely damaged,
as would the credibility of PFI.
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Minister, Alistair
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