Tag: Post office

It would be a fraction of the £2 billion Fujitsu will take out of the Horizon IT system over the lifetime of this contract.

Are you watching, ITV? The next instalment of Post Office drama is unfolding in the Kingston and Surbiton constituency.

"Some of them downright stole it", the director of comms at the Post Office said of subpostmasters caught up in the Horizon scandal.

“No I haven’t told you a pack of lies because I haven’t stolen a penny.”

One investigator said teams had called all subpostmasters "crooks" and assumed that everybody was guilty.

“I mean, it is absolutely fatuous for this government to claim, ‘hey, we’re really acting now’.”

"I don’t share Ed’s politics, but we can’t complain politicians don’t understand struggles of others, then attack them for problems thousands face", one person said.

“Bluntly, if the scale of the incompetence is as we might imagine, then I simply would want to secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer."

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said ‘active consideration’ was being given to a new law to respond to the unprecedented miscarriage of justice.