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Sir Keir Starmer insists he has responded to Sir Alan Bates’ Post Office letters after postmaster rebuke

Sir Alan told MPs he contacted the prime minister about compensation a month ago but hadn’t heard back

The Independent UK

Post office operators may sue over compensation delay, Alan Bates says

Campaigner told MPs deadlines must be set, and he had been waiting a month for reply from Starmer

The Guardian - UK

Downing Street declines to commit to Sir Alan Bates’s redress payment deadline

Sir Keir Starmer responded to the campaigner’s request for assistance on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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PM yet to respond to requests for Horizon redress assistance from Sir Alan Bates

The lead campaigner told MPs he wrote to Sir Keir Starmer around a month ago, and again more recently.

Evening Standard

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates says he’s been waiting a month for reply from PM about compensation delays – as it happened

Former post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandal

The Guardian - UK

UK politics live: Badenoch’s shadow cabinet shows Tories ‘learned nothing’ from Truss chaos, says Labour

Top roles for Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick as new shadow cabinet revealed

The Independent UK

Post Office expects to have paid more than £650m in Horizon claims by March

Inquiry hears claims jumped after TV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office and that £1.4bn is likely to be paid out overall

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Ministers explore plan to hand Post Office to subpostmasters

Campaigner Alan Bates says mutualisation won’t work as organisation will continue to need government subsidies

The Guardian - UK

Post office operators will not all get payouts by March deadline, says minister

Gareth Thomas admits compensation date for those caught up in Horizon IT scandal difficult to achieve

The Guardian - UK

Post Office scandal hero Sir Alan Bates awarded knighthood at Windsor Castle

Sir Alan Bates said he was ‘honoured’ to receive a knighthood

The Independent UK

Britain's CEO of scandal-ridden Post Office will step down next year

The chief executive of Britain’s scandal-ridden Post Office will step down next year

The Independent UK

Will Mellor 'honoured' to be part of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office amid NTAs triumph

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office star Will Mellor discusses working on the National TV Award-winning drama and teases future roles...

WhatToWatch

All the winners at the National Television Awards 2024: Peter Ash and Ant & Dec take prizes

Mr Bates vs The Post Office adds gong to critical acclaim

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How to watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online or on TV

Here's how you can watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Impact online, ready for when it airs on Monday, September 9.

The Independent UK

Post Office campaigner Sir Alan Bates gets married on Richard Branson’s Necker Island

Sir Alan received a knighthood in June 2024 for campaigning around the Post Office scandal.

The Guardian - UK

Post Office campaigner Alan Bates marries partner on Richard Branson’s private island

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoon

The Independent UK

Shocking badger cull film on BBC will prompt anger like Post Office scandal drama, claims Queen star Brian May

‘Dynamite’ claims come two days after government performed U-turn on election pledge to stop killing native mammal

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The Guardian - UK

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

The Independent UK

The best TV of 2024 so far, from Mr Bates vs The Post Office to Big Boys

This year we’ve already had dramas that have changed the world, reality TV that’s made us scream at the telly, and romcoms that have made us cry, writes Ellie Harrison

The Guardian - UK

‘I read the new scripts and nearly died!’: the return of Sherwood – the drama that gripped a nation

James Graham’s series about a divided former mining town was a genre-defying smash. So where does they go with series two? The writer and stars talk about guns, Keir Starmer and 2022’s most unpredictable plot twist

The Guardian - UK

Toxic culture, poor leadership: what Horizon inquiry has told us so far

As latest phase of inquiry concludes – with final stage set to begin in September – we itemise the key takeaways

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Post Office victims to get access to new compensation scheme

About 900 operators with overturned convictions offered fixed settlement of £600,000 or can proceed to full claim

The Guardian - UK

Post Office managers were ‘thugs in suits’, Vince Cable tells inquiry

Former business secretary claims he would have got to grips with Horizon IT scandal if MPs had come to speak to him

The Guardian - UK

Jo Swinson criticises ‘duplicitous’ civil servants at Post Office inquiry

Former postal affairs minister says conduct of some civil servants was ‘Orwellian’ and raises questions of objectivity

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