UNDER-PRESSURE Royal Mail bosses are employing “unusual uses of the English language to give inaccurate statements,” MPs said today in a feisty committee hearing.

The privatised firm’s top brass were hauled back in front of the cross-party business, energy and industrial strategy committee after accusations that they had given “misleading” evidence during a hearing last month.

Company chief executive Simon Thompson, operations development director Ricky McAulay and Royal Mail Group chairman Keith Williams are deliberately ignoring the strike-hit company’s statutory universal service obligation (USO) to deliver letters six days a week, focusing on parcels instead, MPs said.