will review the post office s role in sub postmasters appeals to overturn their convictions based on the now discredited it horizon system. it is an appalling miscarriage ofjustice. obviously it s something that happened a very long time ago, in the 90s, but seeing and hearing about it again just shows what an appalling miscarriage ofjustice it is for everyone affected, and it is important those people get the justice they deserve it. should they all be exonerated? that is what the compensation schemes are about. hundreds were jailed or left bankrupt and only a small number of convictions have so far been overturned. a former postmistress wants justice. what are you going to do to ensurej we get fair and final compensation, not in dribs and drabs? not at a snail s pace. turning to his flagship illegal migration policy, the prime minister denied that he had expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the plans to send migrants to rwanda in number 10 documents seen by the bbc. i was cha
victims are traumatised. it has been a long time, over 25 years. £135 million has been paid to some of the victims, but we had £150 million plus paid to lawyers. these lawyers are putting lots of pressure, it is difficult, the scheme is difficult. we are just normal people, we have legal people with us, but it is so difficult, it s like a war. why is that? why would anybody put post office and dbt in charge of recompense of the victims? would you like to see someone recompense of the victims? would you like to see someone else recompense of the victims? would you like to see someone else take - recompense of the victims? would you like to see someone else take charge l like to see someone else take charge of giving the pot and distributing it to people like you who have lost so much. i know you had some compensation but not enough to cover the terrible costs you had to pay out.
the past few days and beyond, and it is an appalling miscarriage ofjustice. obviously it s something that happened a very long time ago in the 90s, but actually seeing it and hearing about it again just shows what an appalling miscarriage ofjustice it is for everyone affected, and it s important that those people now get the justice that they deserve. should they all be exonerated? and that s what the compensation schemes are about. the government has paid out about, i think, almost £150 million to thousands of people already. of course we want to get the money to the people as quickly as possible. that s why there are interim payments of, i think, up to £600,000 that can be made. there are three different schemes available. keir starmer has called on the prime minister to set to set an election date, is it likely he ll move it forward? i doubt it. rishi sunak has already quashed speculation. or tried to quashed speculation. or tried to quash speculation that it could be an earlier
i would give all compensation to an independent arbiter. at the moment, it is in the hands of the government and the post office, who are the two bodies which wronged the sub postmasters in the first place. that seems fundamentally unfair. since last year, the government had been desperately trying to work out how it could get this situation rescued to the degree they have appointed a group called the horizon compensation advisory board, which is an independent panel which is actually doing some very, very good work in holding the government to account and the post office to account over the shoddy compensation schemes that have been set up. but there is no way victims should have been waiting this long. in 2019, they won a massive group litigation, and in 2021, we had the biggest number of overturned convictions in the court of appeals history in a single day. and yet there are people who are dying before they receive full and final compensation. i do understand the government is s
of redress and accountability from a governmental perspective. and he admitted that the government had messed up compensation. he said, if i had my time again i would give all the compensation to an independent arbiter. at the moment, it is in the hands of the government and the post office who are the two bodies which wronged the sub postmasters in the first place. that seems fundamentally unfair. and since last year, the government has been sort of desperately trying to work out how it can get this situation rescued to the degree that they have appointed a group called the horizon compensation advisory board which is an independent panel, which is actually doing some very, very good work in holding the government to account and the post office to account over the shoddy compensation schemes that have been set up. but there is no way victims should have been waiting this long. 2019 they won a massive group litigation. 2021 we had the biggest number of overturned convictions in the c