Andrew Rawnsley rightly draws a line connecting politicians of all parties as being among those culpable of allowing the Post Office to perpetrate its evil strategy (“The abuse of unaccountable power is at the wicked heart of the Post Office scandal”, Comment). Evil, because I believe what they did was so. Even today, it continues to be obdurate in its behaviour to the inquiry and all of us.
However, there was weakness in oversight that should have come from an effective, suitably empowered, regulator.
