Bitter Row Continues Between Business Secretary and Sacked Post Office Chairman

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Business Secretary,Post Office Chairman,Compensation Payments

The Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and the sacked Post Office Chairman Henry Staunton are still in a bitter row over compensation payments to victims of the Horizon IT scandal. Staunton has released a memo supporting his claims that the government told him to slow down the payments. Rishi Sunak avoided commenting on the allegations, but Staunton has been called to give evidence to MPs.

The bitter row between the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and the sacked Post Office Chairman Henry Staunton shows no sign of abating. He’s doubled down on his claims that the government told him to slow down compensation payments to victims of the Horizon IT scandal – releasing a memo he wrote himself after the conversation.

Then at PMQs, Rishi Sunak sidestepped calls to repeat his Business Secretary’s allegations that Mr Staunton was lying, but the former chairman has been called to give evidence to MPs next week

 

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