Post Office campaigner Alan Bates tells Government to ‘get on and pay people’
Former subpostmaster and lead campaigner Alan Bates has told MPs that the Government should “get on and pay people” amid continued fall-out from the Horizon IT scandal.
Mr Bates told the Business and Trade Committee that the Post Office should be “sold to someone like Amazon for £1” as he described the organisation as a “dead duck” that is “going to be a money pit for the taxpayer in the years to come”.
The campaigner led a group of 555 subpostmasters who took the Post Office to the over the scandal,
