THE London Assembly has called for Royal Mail to be renationalised — ahead of a key meeting at which Labour Party and union activists are likely to clash with leader Ed Miliband on public ownership.

Labour member Murad Qureshi slammed the “cherry-picking” of postal profiteer TNT in a motion to the Assembly on Wednesday, saying that private companies were choosing to deliver post in just the most lucrative of areas.

A Green Party amendment, accepted by Labour, added a call to “lobby the government to bring the postal service back into public ownership.” The motion was passed with the body’s nine Tory members opposing — and the abstention of two Liberal Democrats.