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Tristan Kirk Courts Correspondent

Early warnings of Post Office scandal dismissed by Government in 2009, inquiry hears

Gordon Brown’s government dismissed early signs of the Post Office scandal and claimed it had no role in investigating the prosecution of wrongly accused subpostmasters, the public inquiry has heard.

Lord Arbuthnot, who was the Conservative MP for North East Hampshire, raised the cases of subpostmasters Jo Hamilton and David Bristow with then-Business Secretary Peter Mandelson in November 2009.

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