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Supine MPs finally wake up to scandal

It has taken an ITV drama,, to make a “long-running” tragedy and miscarriage of justice “suddenly and significantly politically salient”, says Stephen Bush in the Financial Times. Alan Bates was a sub-postmaster who was falsely accused by the Post Office, along with some 3,500 others, of defrauding the UK’s postal service based on evidence which relied on now discredited

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