Just one pound in five has been paid out in financial redress to postmasters wrongfully accused of theft and fraud is it time the post office is completely removed from delivering compensation . Disarray at the top of the post office in full view at a hearing in front of mps today. The main scandal remains the snails pace of redress for postmasters. Well talk live to this post Office Manager wrongfully accused of stealing £78,000 and jailed for six months, and this mp whos on the horizon compensation Advisory Board. Also tonight. Labour mp Margaret Hodge tells us shes written to the metropolitan police and the Electoral Commission to ask them to investigate whether the Conservative Party broke electoral law in taking £200,000 from the partner of a prominent donor. The chancellor said he wanted to get Older Workers off the golf course and back into employment but why have they really opted out of the workforce . In a dramatic Hearing Today, current and former post Office Bosses traded
hello, i m balvinder gill. i was a sub postmaster until i was wrongly suspended by the post office and made bankrupt. what does the promise to clear and compensate victims of the post office scandal mean for me? balvinder gill is here along with four other subpostmasters. they ll give their reaction live tonight to today s news that they will finally be cleared but will everyone be helped? the minister responsible tells us the budget for compensation is £1 billion. is he sorry it s taken so long? it s terrible, i apologise to all those people, i think over 60 people, and this has been going on for over 20 years, probably 2a, 25 years now. who does he think should pay the bill taxpayers or fujitsu, who delivered the faulty horizon software? plus tonight, the man who was employed by the post office to investigate horizon software and who found it faulty as far back as 2013. good evening. it feels like theft but it was more like systematic abuse the words of this po
Could Climate Change mean well see more of these events . Well be joined be a scientist who has spent a decade researching just that, and also, the head of the airline pilots union balpa. This is Paula Vennells, who is at the heart of the post office scandal. She finally gives evidence tomorrow. Well be asking lord lord Arbuthnot Who played a pivotal role in the postmasters campaign what he wants to hear from the woman who was in charge. Also tonight. Will tomorrows Inflation Figures give the government a boost, or are Cost Of Living concerns so endemic, will it even register . 0ur Economic Experts will give you the answer. And tomorrow, the mp Craig Mackinlay returns to westminster, after revealing the extent of what he describes as Extreme Surgery after sepsis. There was discussions happening about these arms, and legs. Because by then, they had turned black. They were like a plastic. You could almost knock them. And it was like. It was like a. Like your mobile phone plastic. Tonight
My life. And thats life lost, with the kids, everything, theyjust dont know what theyve done to people. Post office minister, kevin hollinrake, has been speaking to bbc breakfast and says the inquiry is important to make sure those responsible are held to account. Where evidence has been established people should be prosecuted. Thats my view. And i think you and other people ive spoken to, i certainly feel people within the post office and possibly further afield should go to jail. Lets speak now to richard moorhead, whos been writing about the legal ethics surrounding the post Office Scandal for several years and is also a member of the horizon compensation advisory board. The minister said in his opinion people should be prosecuted and go to jail. Do you think that is likely to jail. Do you think that is likely to happen and will the next stage of the inquiry go towards that . The inquiry go towards that . People in the post office the inquiry go towards that . People in the post off
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