Good evening. Ministers have set aside more than £1 billion of taxpayers’ money to pay for Post Office scandal compensation. Meanwhile Tory MPs have said Post Office investigators should be forced to repay their bonuses and pensions into the compensation scheme for wronged branch managers.
Good evening. Boeing’s chief executive has admitted the mid-air Alaska Airlines door panel blowout was the aircraft maker’s “mistake”. Elsewhere, Rishi Sunak has promised a new law to exonerate postmasters caught up in the Post Office IT scandal.
Good evening. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is facing growing calls to quit over his role in the Post Office Horizon scandal. Meanwhile former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has said she will hand back her CBE with immediate effect.
Good evening. Rishi Sunak would “strongly support” an official review into whether former Post Office boss Paula Vennells should be stripped of her CBE in the wake of the Horizon IT scandal. Nigel Farage has also demanded that Sir Keir Starmer explain why did he not intervene while director of public prosecutions.