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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Davies

Post Office boss ‘obsessed with his pay’, claims former HR director

A red Post Office van in central London
Jane Davies described more than 30 emails and instant messages between December 2022 and January 2023, discussing Nick Read’s disgruntlement over his remuneration. Photograph: James Manning/PA

The chief executive of the Post Office was “obsessed” with his pay and threatened to resign unless it was increased even as the Horizon scandal escalated, a former HR director at the postal service has claimed.

The former chief people officer, Jane Davies, said Nick Read repeatedly demanded pay increases from the government, the company’s sole shareholder, and described his bonus as “intolerable”.

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