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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK business
    Badenoch row with ex-Post Office chair risks putting business leaders off public posts

    Serving and former officials warn of increased politicisation of their roles after spat between UK business secretary and Henry Staunton

    Business secretary Kemi Badenoch and ousted Post Office chair Henry Staunton
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK government sets out plans to exonerate Post Office scandal victims

    Legislation to immediately quash convictions of affected sub-postmasters in England and Wales

  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    News in-depthKemi Badenoch
    Badenoch rows highlight combative style of Tory leadership prospect

    Stance as ‘anti-woke, Black woman’ seen as making her popular with predominantly white, older party membership

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Ex-Post Office chair was told financial plan had to ‘hobble’ up to election, says memo

    Business department releases own correspondence in wake of Staunton note on handling company’s funding requests

    Henry Staunton
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Kemi Badenoch and former Post Office chair locked in war of words

    Henry Staunton hits back after business secretary accuses him of ‘seeking revenge’ over compensation for postmasters

    Kemi Badenoch, left, and Henry Staunton
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    UK government rejects claim Post Office compensation stalled ahead of election

    Former chair says he was asked to delay payouts to sub-postmasters for sake of public finances

    Henry Staunton
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Top judge insists courts can handle Post Office appeals despite planned legislation

    More than 900 sub-postmasters were convicted in cases involving data from the faulty Horizon IT system

    Lady Chief Justice Dame Sue Carr
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    HMRC gave Fujitsu £1.4bn in new contracts after landmark 2019 Post Office court case

    Figures released by MPs shed new light on IT provider’s government business

  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Ministers reject judiciary plan for alternative to mass exoneration of Post Office victims

    Lawyers for sub-postmasters continue fight to clear names amid concern over progress on prime minister’s pledge

    Post Office sign
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Post Office scandal sounds warning on diversity backlash

    Experts say treatment of victims warrants investigation into whether race played a role — and boardrooms should pay attention

    Balvinder Gill with his mother, Kashmir
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Paula Vennells to face grilling at next stage of Post Office inquiry

    Former chief executive will be joined by BT chair Adam Crozier at probe into one of UK’s biggest miscarriages of justice

    Paula Vennells
  • Sunday, 28 January, 2024
    Post Office chair ousted because it ‘just wasn’t working’, says business secretary

    Kemi Badenoch said Henry Staunton was unable to deliver the scale of change needed in the aftermath of the Horizon scandal

    A Post Office sign
  • Saturday, 27 January, 2024
    Post Office chair quits board as UK government seeks ‘new leadership’

    Ministers are grappling with how to manage state-owned business at heart of Horizon scandal

  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Former Fujitsu executive steps down from Cabinet Office role

    Michael Keegan held senior roles at Japanese company as its involvement in the Post Office IT scandal came to light

    A Post Office branch
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Post Office told UK government it would oppose appeals by half of convicted sub-postmasters

    Letter came in wake of public outcry following an ITV dramatisation of scandal

    A UK Post Office sign
  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Zelda Perkins
    The Post Office scandal shines an unforgiving light on NDA abuse

    UK government must act to prevent the victims of injustice being gagged

    Noel Thomas, centre, was among the former sub-postmaster who were wrongly convicted by the Post Office
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    UK Post Office scandal exposes risks of Fujitsu’s hands-off approach

    Reputational damage for Japanese conglomerate may affect demand for its AI products and IT services

    Fujitsu and Post Office logos with line chart going down
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Fujitsu says Horizon defects were hidden from courts in Post Office cases

    Both businesses were aware of software bugs from the very start, says IT company

    Paul Patterson
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Mike Bracken
    No more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many lives

    Governments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters

  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Fujitsu suspends bidding for UK public contracts after Post Office scandal

    Japanese company developed flawed software that led to 700 sub-postmasters being convicted

    Fujitsu’s UK head office in Bracknell, Berkshire
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Judiciary chief says courts could have coped with Post Office appeals

    Dame Sue Carr suggests Rishi Sunak’s emergency legislation to quash convictions may have been unnecessary

    The new Lady Chief Justice, Dame Sue Carr
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Fujitsu agrees to contribute to Post Office scandal compensation

    European head tells MPs the Japanese company has ‘moral obligation’ to share in cost of redress for sub-postmasters

    Paul Patterson
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    What was Fujitsu’s role in the Post Office scandal?

    Japanese IT company that designed the faulty computer system under growing pressure to compensate sub-postmasters

    A montage of a Horizon terminal and a Post Office sign
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    UK government vows to protect litigation funding that helped sub-postmasters

    Justice secretary Alex Chalk plans to reverse ‘damaging effects’ of last year’s Supreme Court ruling

    Litigation funding  has enabled consumers and small business owners, such as the sub-postmasters, to take on corporate giants
  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    UK officials tried to block Fujitsu from government contracts in 2010s

    ‘Project Sushi’ failed to remove Japanese software company despite ‘woeful’ performance

    Fujitsu building
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