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

Sarah Munby and Henry Staunton have published different interpretations of their meeting about the Post Office’s finances. Photograph: https://www.gov.uk/government/people/sarah-munby#biography

Sarah Munby, the civil servant at the heart of the Post Office dispute, has found herself uncomfortably exposed after the organisation’s former chair alleged she told him to slow compensation claims to Horizon victims.

Henry Staunton, the ex-Post Office chair, originally did not name Munby, who was permanent secretary of the business department at the time.