Kemi Badenoch failed to raise Horizon scandal when she met Fujitsu at Davos

Kemi Badenoch outside Downing Street last week. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Kemi Badenoch failed to raise the issue of the Horizon scandal or compensation for Post Office operators when she met Fujitsu at Davos last year, instead focusing on asking the firm for its views on investing in the UK.

The business secretary, who was then trade secretary, was warned by civil servants in her briefing note of the “risk” around the Horizon scandal, in which Fujitsu supplied faulty software that led to about 700 post office operators being wrongly convicted of fraud.