Rishi Sunak has announced a new law to ensure victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal are ‘swiftly exonerated’, with £75,000 for each affected postmaster.
The Prime Minister described it as one of the ‘greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history’.
‘The victims must get justice and compensation,’ he says
Government officials said the bill would be introduced “within weeks” with a view to granting the acquittal this year.
Meanwhile the pressure has turned to Lib Dem leader Ed Davey with ‘Where is he!?’ shouts heard in Commons as MPs demand Ed Davey answer for Post Office scandal
As Postal Affairs minister, Davey refused to believe Alan Bates about Post Office bullying
Earlier today on BBC Radio 5 Live, ex-postmistress Sally Stringer demanded the scalp of the Lib Dem chief
She’s brandished a letter, apparently straight from Davey’s desk, where he admits to being ‘fully aware’ of the Post Office shambles while he was the Post Office minister.
Meanwhile The FT this morning reports that The Government awarded billions of pounds of contracts involving Fujitsu on after the Japanese company’s software was found to be at fault in the Post Office scandal in a landmark 2019 court ruling
