good evening. the chaos at the top of the post office was laid bare today, as both its chief executive and former chairman gave contradictory evidence to mps about the scandal which has engulfed the organisation. the former chairman henry staunton said he s been the victim ofa smear campaign, after claiming he was told to stall compensation for wrongly accused subpostmasters. meanwhile the leader of the subpostmasters, alan bates, told the mps the post office is now a dead duck that should be sold off for a pound. our business editor simonjack watched the hearing. victims of the post office scandal arrived in westminster today to answer questions from mps on whether they thought the compensation had been full, fair and fast. no, no, no, was the answer from three victims, starting with alan bates whose campaign was dramatised by itv. pay people. there s a lot of distractions, a lot of other things were brought up, thrown up all the time. butjust get on and pay people. we were
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