Post Office boss under investigation as top brass squabble over compensation and blame
by Kate Devlin and Zoe Grunewald
Feb 28, 2024
3 minutes
The head of the Post Office is the subject of an internal investigation, a former chair of the organisation told a Commons committee on Tuesday, highlighting the disarray at the top of the group.
During an extraordinary hearing in parliament, Henry Staunton also reignited a furious row with the business secretary Kemi Badenoch, saying he had been the victim of a “smear campaign” after he said he was told to delay payments to subpostmasters.
But lead campaigner Alan Bates, a former subpostmaster, told MPs the government should as a “dead duck” and said it should be sold off for £1 to Amazon.
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