It’s not often that relations between politicians (particularly Conservative ones) and business leaders descend into full-blown rows. It is rarer still that we, the public, find out just how sour the arguments are.
But in the past few days Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, and Henry Staunton, the recently sacked chair of the Post Office, have turned their disagreement on the handling of the Horizon scandal into a public mudslinging battle that has dominated news headlines.
