it s a scandal which has been years in the making and which made criminals of hundreds of innocent men and women across the uk but now it seems the post office horizon software cases could finally be resolved. a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years a faulty it systems are just a money was being stolen. despite the truth coming to light several years ago many have not yet been exonerated or had compensation paid. the issue came to the fore again in the last week after a story was dramatised on tv and today at prime minister s questions, rishi sunak, and as the governm
16 years, after a faulty it system made it look like money was missing. some went to prison and many lives and livelihoods were ruined. our political editor chris mason has more on the day s developments. four nights of drama on the telly after two decades of injustice. and, just one week later. we come to questions for the prime minister. the most high profile moment of the week at westminster. the start of prime minister s question time. and rishi sunak said. mr speaker this is one of the greatest miscarriages ofjustice in our nation s history. today i can announce that we will introduce new primary legislation, to make sure that those convicted as a as a result of the horizon scannedle are swiftly exonerated and compensated. this is the story of westminster transfixed like never before, about a scandal over 20 years in the making. it is a huge injustice, people lost their lives, their liberty, and their livelihood, and they have been waiting far too long for the truth forj
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alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
evening. i wonder if i can ask you first of all, how would you describe the length of time it has taken to get to this point? frankly terrible. we could have resolved this entire issue when ron warmington and iain henderson went in in the first place, if the post office had not tried to cover everything up and to protect the brand at the expense of the sub postmasters. ron warmington and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. d0 and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. , ., . and ian henderson pulled up so it s terrible. . . , terrible. do you have any reservations terrible. do you have any reservations about - terrible. do you have any reservations about mps l terrible. do you have any| reservations about mps of terrible. do you have any reservations about mps of returning convictions handed out by the courts? . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . convictions handed out by the courts? , ,., . , courts? it s something that is. it makes one cour