As No 10 admitted expected many to reject offer of £75,000 payment

A former subpostmaster said he used his mother’s life savings to pay the Post Office after being falsely accused of stealing £22,000. Parmod Kalia explained how he was told to “make up a story and plead guilty” in court to avoid jail - but was ...

Voters in Brexit-backing coastal seats have swung back behind Labour after supporting Boris Johnson in 2019, new polling shows

Former environment minister quit as minister last summer, accusing Rishi sunak of ‘apathy’ towards climate change

One of thousands wrongly forced to pay Post Office shortfalls warns £75,000 offered by PM ‘won’t cut it’

sunak government facing pressure to hold tech firm accountable ‘legally and finacially’

Chris Skidmore says he has ‘no regrets’ about forcing a fresh battle despite Tory anger

Government this week announced new legislation to swiftly exonerate 700 postmasters

Wes Streeting says he is shocked by the extent to which the health and wellbeing of the nation’s children has declined

 

Rishi sunak has announced plans for new legislation to clear the names of subpostmasters wrongfully convicted because of faulty accounting software. The prime minister said the Post Office Horizon scandal was “one of the greatest miscarriages of ju ...

‘I would want to secure proper recompense on behalf of the taxpayer’, says justice secretary

After a primetime TV drama moved the Post Office Horizon scandal up the political agenda, Rishi sunak has acted to push through a law that would quash the convictions of hundreds of wrongly accused employees. Pippa Crerar reports

PMQs told the country that campaigners such as Alan Bates had nothing on Priti Patel, Lee Anderson and Rishi sunak

Rishi sunak has announced plans to overturn the wrongful conviction of over 700 postmasters since 2003

Sir Keir Starmer accused the government of "losing control" in a heated clash with Rishi sunak over Rwanda legislation. The Labour leader also claimed the prime minister "wanted to scrap the scheme when he was trying to sne ...

Watch live as Rishi sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 10 January.

Follows one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history

A new law will be introduced to exonerate hundreds of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal, the Prime Minister has announced. Rishi sunak said they were victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our natio ...

This is the moment Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is mistakenly called “Prime Minister” by the Speaker of the House of Commons. Lindsay Hoyle made the mistake in a heated Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (10 January), when Rishi sunak co ...