IN BRIEF

Royal Mail said new EU rules may have added to a 6% fall in letter deliveries in the last three months. Bosses reckon confusion among firms about the regulations could have led to less junk mail being posted. The drop was offset by a 7% increase in parcels.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey went armed with a giant roulette wheel outside Parliament yesterday to warn that the Government’s Brexit chaos was gambling away UK jobs.