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The Independent UK
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Matt Mathers and Tara Cobham

Sunak would ‘strongly support’ review of ex-Post Office chief’s CBE amid calls for mass exonerations – latest

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Rishi Sunak said the Post Office Horizon scandal was an “appalling miscarriage of justice”

Rishi Sunak would “strongly support” the body that reviews honours if it decided to look at revoking former Post Office boss Paula Vennells’ CBE in the wake of the Horizon scandal.

There have been growing calls for the former Post Office chief executive to hand back her CBE after an ITV drama returned the widespread miscarriage of justice to the spotlight.

The prime minister’s official spokesman said Mr Sunak would “strongly support” the forfeiture committee “if they were to choose to investigate”.

Earlier, a former Conservative cabinet minister said all workers wrongly convicted in the scandal should be exonerated because each of their cases is linked to “one single lie”.

Sir David Davis, a senior Tory MP, is planning to raise the issue in the Commons as MPs return from the Christmas holidays and has called for an emergency debate.

“All of the cases depend on one single lie, and that is nobody but the postmasters and mistresses could access their computers,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme earlier.

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