Ex-Post Office chair was told not to ‘rip off the Band-Aid’ with compensation payments
The row between the former Post Office chair and the government has deepened, with a top civil servant responding to accusations that she told him not to “rip off the Band-Aid” in relation to compensation payments to subpostmasters.
After business secretary Kemi Badenoch accused Henry Staunton of lying when he said he had been told to stall compensation payouts for postmasters affected by the Horizon scandal, Mr Staunton unearthed a memo in which he had recorded the instruction.
It revealed that Sarah Munby, who was then the business department’s permanent secretary, had and that “now was not the time
