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Thursday briefing: Kemi Badenoch’s war of words with the Post Office official she fired, explained

In today’s newsletter: The business secretary’s spat with Henry Staunton could damage her reputation, and future ambitions

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Post Office scandal: civil servant rejects claims she asked to slow compensation

Sarah Munby insists she never suggested to ex-Post Office chair Henry Staunton that he delay payments to post office operators

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office: a symptom of chronic shallowness

Editorial: If the government had cared as much about Horizon victims as the business secretary claims, she would not be in a row about delayed compensation

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Civil servant dragged into fight with ex-chair of Post Office has government’s backing – for now

Sarah Munby forced to break cover to rebut Henry Staunton claim she told him to delay Horizon compensation payments

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Sunak refuses to repeat Badenoch claim that ex-Post Office chair lied

PM declines to say Henry Staunton lied about government’s handling of payments for Horizon scandal victims

The Guardian - UK

More than 30 MPs sign motion of no confidence in Commons speaker – as it happened

Labour amendment calling for immediate Gaza ceasefire passes after government and SNP walkout

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Post Office scandal: how many subpostmasters have received compensation?

A damning Post Office Inquiry report called for more to be done to compensate the thousands of people impacted

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Badenoch v Staunton: a public mudslinging over the Post Office

A look at the origins of the confrontation between the business secretary and the former Post Office chair, and what is at stake

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Harrowing video of suffering of sub-postmasters victim of Horizon IT scandal published by public inquiry

The move came as MPs are probing whether a top civil servant gave a ‘go-slow order’ on pay-outs

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MPs demand to see ex-Post Office chair’s note over Horizon payouts

Henry Staunton has accused government of wanting to stall compensation payments to victims until after election

The Guardian - UK

SNP welcomes Labour call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza, claiming it forced Starmer into U-turn – as it happened

Stephen Flynn says decision by Labour is ‘long-overdue’ and Starmer was forced into position by public pressure and the SNP

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch accuses Post Office chair she sacked of seeking revenge

Business minister criticises Henry Staunton after he claimed the government wanted to stall payouts to scandal victims

The Guardian - UK

Minister says government working on sanction options for those involved in Alexei Navalny’s death – as it happened

Leo Docherty, Foreign Office minister, says government ‘working at pace’ to hold those responsible for Russian opposition leader’s death to account

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'I went nuts trying to find missing £1,000 in Post Office system - now I'll get my life back'

Jacqueline Falcon, 42, was yet another victim of the Horizon accounting system which wrongly indicated £1,000 was missing from her till.

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Ex-Post Office boss ‘gave Fujitsu bonus contract despite warnings’

Exclusive: Whistleblowers say Paula Vennells agreed to move archive, which risked destroying data that could clear operators

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch failed to raise Horizon scandal when she met Fujitsu at Davos

Exclusive: FoI request shows minister was warned by civil servants of ‘risk’ but focused instead on tech firm’s investment in UK

The Guardian - UK

Ministers discuss alternative plan to exonerate Post Office Horizon victims

Exclusive: Meetings held about proposal by judiciary for courts to overturn convictions despite plan for bill to clear victims

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Post Office hires new inquiry chief, head of financial crime compliance

Over at the Post Office, the board is recruiting several senior roles.

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‘Constructive’ talks held over transfer of Post Office ownership to operators

Minister met union officials and representatives from co-operative movement to discuss mutualisation

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MP criticises ‘fatal flaw’ in government’s oversight of Post Office IT scandal

Ministers should have acted through representative on company’s board, inquiry hears

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Post Office Horizon scandal not the fault of judges, Lady Chief Justice insists

Lady Carr hailed the "heroic" work of one High Court judge who laid the path for wrongful Post Office convictions to be overturned

Evening Standard

Why are some post offices stopping selling National Lottery tickets and scratchcards?

The move follows Allwyn Entertainment taking over from Camelot as the lottery operator

The Guardian - UK

‘Turned our lives upside down’: the day the Post Office investigators came

Teju Adedayo says she was pressured into confessing to Horizon IT errors, and she has lived under the shadow of it ever since

The Guardian - UK

Government to discuss handing ownership of Post Office to its operators

Post office operators’ union calls meeting after miscarriage of justice that saw more than 700 branch managers prosecuted

The Guardian - UK

Post Office inquiry has heard ‘chorus of cowards’, lawyers say

Victims’ lawyers call for witness statements heard at inquiry to be start of a ‘rigorous criminal investigation’

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