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Ministers to consider mutualisation as an option in first big review of the organisation in 15 yearsBusiness live – latest updatesMinisters are to consider handing over ownership of the Post Office to its operators after the Horizon IT scandal.The Depa…
Energy secretary says it is not clear if opposition have any net zero policy As Rowena Mason revealed recently, No 10 has issued guidance that in effect bans civil servants from any level of speaking at events where journalists are present.Today the Ti…
We look at what volume one of the inquiry report describes as the ‘disastrous’ human impactPost Office scandal may have led to more than 13 suicides, inquiry finds‘We lost so many along the way’: Horizon scandal victims welcome reportVolume one of the …
First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare ‘disastrous’ human impact as 10,000 people seek compensationUK politics live – latest updatesMore than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while it drov…
This live blog is now closedFrench police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the right tactic, Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has said. Jessica Elgot and Peter Walker have the story.Boris Johnson, the former Tory PM…
More than 45 individuals being investigated in relation to widespread miscarriage of justiceThe police criminal inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is investigating more than 45 individuals, with seven formally identified as main suspects.T…
At least £600,000 relating to Horizon IT scandal remains unclaimed, with officials reluctant to recontact victimsPost office operators yet to claim compensation of at least £600,000 relating to the Horizon IT scandal have not been chased up by official…
Exclusive: Whitehall sources say model in early planning after criticism of schemes to redress victims of scandalsA proposal by the Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates for an independent body to oversee future public sector compensation schemes is be…
Campaigner calls compensation schemes ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’ after final offer made in response to his appealSir Alan Bates, who led the 20-year campaign for justice for post office operators over the Horizon scandal, has revealed he has been handed a…
Payments to be made to post office operators whose details were accidentally published onlineHundreds of former post office operators will be compensated by the Post Office after it accidentally leaked their names and addresses in June 2024.The Post Of…