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Post Office to announce branch closures and job cuts in cost-cutting drive

Company seeking to shut or refranchise most of its crown post offices and cut up to 1,000 head office positions

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch says ministers let bureaucracy hold up payments to wronged subpostmasters

Tory leader blamed ‘too much bureaucracy’ for lenghty waits in payouts for wronged subpostmaster

The Independent UK

Government allowed bureaucracy to get in way of Horizon redress – Kemi Badenoch

Mrs Badenoch and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds gave evidence to the inquiry on Monday.

Evening Standard

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Post Office corporate culture at root of Horizon scandal – Business Secretary

Jonathan Reynolds said he takes ‘ultimate responsibility’ at governmental level for full, fair and prompt redress.

Evening Standard

Post Office corporate culture at root of Horizon scandal – business secretary

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said he takes ‘ultimate responsibility’ for ensuring wronged subpostmasters are given full, fair and prompt redress

The Independent UK

Watch live: Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appears before Post Office inquiry

Watch live as Kemi Badenoch appears before the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry on Monday, 11 November.

The Independent UK

Make Good: The Post Office Scandal review – a musical miscarriage of justice

The installation of the Horizon digital till resembles the villain’s entrance in a pantomime

The Guardian - UK

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Families of post office operators may be able claim Horizon compensation, says minister

Government is looking into gaps in eligibility criteria that mean family and employees of branch owners cannot claim

The Guardian - UK

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office among shows shortlisted for TV Choice Awards

The TV drama has been nominated in the best new drama category, but it will face tough competition from Baby Reindeer, Fool Me Once and Nightsleeper.

Evening Standard

Post Office chief was paid a lot while not doing a good job, says ex-minister

Kevin Hollinrake tells Horizon IT scandal inquiry that Nick Read was unable to properly lead organisation

The Guardian - UK

Ex-postal affairs minister apologises for government being ‘armed with lawyers’

Kevin Hollinrake said it was one of the mistakes he made while in post.

Evening Standard

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.

The Conversation

Secrets and lies: spies of the Stuart era played a dangerous game in the shadows of an unstable Europe

Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats – a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As a result, by the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the English government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering domestic and international intelligence.

The Independent 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 Guardian - 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

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The Guardian - UK

US dollar weakens as election polls shift away from Donald Trump – as it happened

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as investors reassess bets after some polls suggest Kamala Harris has gained momentum

The Guardian - UK

Fujitsu and Post Office clash over new rules on Horizon data requests

Software maker now requires answer on whether use of audit records is related to action against post office workers

The Guardian - UK

Post Office considering making branch operators fund ‘losses pool’, inquiry told

Option among those explored, as state-owned body looks to recover £12m a year written off over Horizon scandal

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 legal chief denies saying branch operators ‘guilty until proven innocent’

Ben Foat tells inquiry into Horizon IT scandal that issue was ‘whipped up’ by former chair Henry Staunton

The Guardian - UK

Post Office continued to use racist term for black workers until 2016, inquiry told

Terms used to categorise branch operators in Horizon IT scandal by race said to be common in 1980s public sector

The Guardian - UK

Post Office chiefs changed Horizon data in branches last year without telling operators, inquiry hears

Executive Tracy Marshall tells inquiry such practice has since stopped saying it ‘absolutely shouldn’t have happened’

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