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Post Office: MPs seek report on chief’s alleged £1m pay demands March 3, 2024 MPs have urgently asked to see a Post Office whistleblower report after claims emerged that chief executive Nick Read demanded a £1m pay package.
Mark Kleinman: This Post Office circus is obscuring the real drama February 29, 2024 The City's best connected columnist on the Post Office, confusion at the top of an insurer and why the Pru is looking at Hong Kong
Post Office chairman asked for CEO’s pay to be doubled, MPs told February 28, 2024 The former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton urged ministers to double CEO Nick Read's pay to prevent him quitting, MPs have been told.
Post Office: Former chairman claims CEO was ‘set to resign over pay’ February 27, 2024 The chief executive of the Post Office is under investigation amounting to an “80-page” dossier and was close to quitting as he was “unhappy with the salary”, the former chairman Henry Staunton has claimed in a bombshell evidence session.
Post Office chief doesn’t ‘believe’ ex-chair Staunton’s payment delay claim is ‘true’ February 27, 2024 Post Office chief executive Nick Read has told MPs he doesn’t “believe” former chairman Henry Staunton’s claim he was told to delay Horizon compensation payments is “true”.
Horizon campaigner Alan Bates says Britain should sell ‘dead duck’ Post Office to Amazon for £1 February 27, 2024 A campaigner at the centre of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal has urged the government to sell the “dead duck” organisation to “someone like Amazon for £1”.
Post Office row: Top civil servant denies telling Henry Staunton to delay payments February 22, 2024 A senior civil servant has denied tellilng former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton to delay the Horizon IT compensation payments.
Whatever you think of him, the former Post Office boss has guts February 21, 2024 The war of words that has erupted between the ex-Post Office chair and Kemi Badenoch is a welcome example of character, writes Simon Neville.
Kemi Badenoch stand-off with ex-Post Office boss escalates as he defends interview branded ‘full of lies’ February 20, 2024 The article suggests he was told by a top civil servant to stall "compensation payments to Horizon victims so the government could “limp into the election” with the lowest possible financial liability."
Former Post Office chair claims he was told to stall Horizon compensation February 18, 2024 Former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton claimed he was told to stall Horizon compensation to help the government “limp into the election”.