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Lydia Chantler-Hicks and Rachael Burford

Post Office scandal latest: Law to exonerate Horizon victims could be set up in six weeks, Tory peer says

New laws to clear Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal could take as little as six weeks to set up, an advisory board member has said.

"The Government has moved very quickly and the [ITV] drama has had a galvanising effect," said Conservative peer Lord Arbuthnot, who is a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, which met on Wednesday.

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