Post Office chairman was told to delay compensation in election run up, memo suggests
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Top civil servant told Henry Staunton there was no appetite to ‘rip off band aid’, according to sacked chairman’s note of conversation UK politics live – latest updatesA senior civil servant told the former Post Office chairman that in the run-up to the election there was no appetite to “rip off the band aid” in terms of government finances, according to a memo he wrote at the time.Henry Staunton, who was sacked as chairman of the Post Office last month, has produced a record of the conversation in which he says he was told to delay compensation payments to wrongly convicted post office operators. Continue reading...
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