The former MP, who featured in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, gave damning evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry - and said he wasn t happy with how the former chief executive Paula Vennells "brushed off" concerns from sub-postmasters.
Tory peer James Arbuthnot, who doggedly campaigned on the scandal, told the official inquiry that he believed the Post Office was 'stringing MPs along' to defend the faulty Horizon IT system