Feb 22, 2024
Post Office: Governments of last 20 years should 'regret' Horizon scandal, says David Cameron
Sir Keir Starmer has called on the government to reveal what ministers knew about the cancelling of an investigation which may have cleared sub-postmasters in 2016. The questions came after the BBC discovered that David Cameron's government knew in 2016 that an investigation into the flawed Horizon IT system had been cancelled. Records seen by the BBC show that the minister responsible for the Post Office at the time, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, was told it should be cancelled on legal advice when a group of sub-postmasters launched legal action. At Prime Ministers' Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir asked Mr Sunak: "Had that investigation revealed that could be altered, which we now know to be the case, the livelihoods of those wrongly prosecuted could have been saved."What did government ministers know about it at the time?". Mr Starmer asked whether the prime minister had thought of asking Lord Cameron, who is now Foreign Secretary, and Baroness Neville-Rolfe who is now a Cabinet Office minister, what they knew in 2016.
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