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Kemi Badenoch says ministers let bureaucracy hold up payments to wronged subpostmasters

Tory leader blamed ‘too much bureaucracy’ for lenghty waits in payouts for wronged subpostmaster

The Independent UK

Badenoch: it’s ‘disappointing’ it took ITV drama to speed up Post Office payouts

Tory leader tells inquiry she worked behind scenes to try to win funding for more compensation over Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

Government allowed bureaucracy to get in way of Horizon redress – Kemi Badenoch

Mrs Badenoch and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds gave evidence to the inquiry on Monday.

Evening Standard

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Post Office corporate culture at root of Horizon scandal – Business Secretary

Jonathan Reynolds said he takes ‘ultimate responsibility’ at governmental level for full, fair and prompt redress.

Evening Standard

Post Office corporate culture at root of Horizon scandal – business secretary

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said he takes ‘ultimate responsibility’ for ensuring wronged subpostmasters are given full, fair and prompt redress

The Independent UK

Watch live: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appears before Post Office inquiry

Watch live as Kemi Badenoch appears before the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Monday, 11 November.

The Independent UK

Pay for NHS chiefs to be linked to performance with ‘no more rewards for failure’, Wes Streeting says – as it happened

Health secretary to confirm announcement in speech later this week

The Guardian - UK

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Make Good: The Post Office Scandal review – a musical miscarriage of justice

The installation of the Horizon digital till resembles the villain’s entrance in a pantomime

The Guardian - UK

Families of post office operators may be able claim Horizon compensation, says minister

Government is looking into gaps in eligibility criteria that mean family and employees of branch owners cannot claim

The Guardian - UK

Post Office chief was paid a lot while not doing a good job, says ex-minister

Kevin Hollinrake tells Horizon IT scandal inquiry that Nick Read was unable to properly lead organisation

The Guardian - UK

Ex-postal affairs minister apologises for government being ‘armed with lawyers’

Kevin Hollinrake said it was one of the mistakes he made while in post.

Evening Standard

Post office operators may sue over compensation delay, Alan Bates says

Campaigner told MPs deadlines must be set, and he had been waiting a month for reply from Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates says he’s been waiting a month for reply from PM about compensation delays – as it happened

Former post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

UK politics live: Badenoch’s shadow cabinet shows Tories ‘learned nothing’ from Truss chaos, says Labour

Top roles for Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick as new shadow cabinet revealed

The Independent UK

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Yorkshire cricket racism whistleblower Azeem Rafiq leads calls to force firms to investigate concerns

Exclusive: Group of high-profile whistleblowers cite Grenfell and Post Office scandals as they demand Labour government makes companies act

The Guardian - UK

Post Office expects to have paid more than £650m in Horizon claims by March

Inquiry hears claims jumped after TV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office and that £1.4bn is likely to be paid out overall

The Guardian - UK

US dollar weakens as election polls shift away from Donald Trump – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as investors reassess bets after some polls suggest Kamala Harris has gained momentum

Evening Standard

More than £13bn set aside for infected blood and Horizon scandal victims

Some £11.8 billion will be set aside for infected blood victims, and £1.8 billion to compensate those caught up in the Post Office Horizon scandal.

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The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu and Post Office clash over new rules on Horizon data requests

Software maker now requires answer on whether use of audit records is related to action against post office workers

The Guardian - UK

Ministers explore plan to hand Post Office to subpostmasters

Campaigner Alan Bates says mutualisation won’t work as organisation will continue to need government subsidies

The Guardian - UK

Post Office legal chief denies saying branch operators ‘guilty until proven innocent’

Ben Foat tells inquiry into Horizon IT scandal that issue was ‘whipped up’ by former chair Henry Staunton

The Guardian - UK

Post Office continued to use racist term for black workers until 2016, inquiry told

Terms used to categorise branch operators in Horizon IT scandal by race said to be common in 1980s public sector

The Guardian - UK

Post Office chiefs changed Horizon data in branches last year without telling operators, inquiry hears

Executive Tracy Marshall tells inquiry such practice has since stopped saying it ‘absolutely shouldn’t have happened’

The Guardian - UK

Former Post Office IT chief claims Horizon system has no fundamental flaw

Mike Young said he saw nothing ‘fundamentally wrong’ and defended ability to remotely access branch accounts

The Guardian - UK

Post Office picked comments backing Horizon IT system from damning judgment, emails show

Company tried to convince police to take action against a post office operator this year, it has emerged

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