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Alan Bates described Post Office bosses as “little more than thugs in suits”, the Horizon IT Inquiry heard.

The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines.

So, now we know: the Post Office sacked Alan Bates because it called him “unmanageable”. Stick it on a T-shirt! Whack it on a hat! There’s no greater compliment in bureaucratic Britain than being impossible to manage, and at the Post Office Inquiry hearings in Aldwych House, we learnt how Bad Boy Bates gained his reputation.

A show about a British scandal in which hundreds of people were wrongly convicted of theft and had their lives destroyed starts on PBS on Sunday.

Rishi Sunak will unveil a scheme on Wednesday to exonerate wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters, as the Prime Minister said that “nothing can make up for what they’ve been through”.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates says Trump’s remarks are ‘appalling and unhinged’

Alan Bates has said sub-postmasters are “the skint little people”, as it emerged Fujistu bosses were paid £37m since the Horizon contract with the Post Office began.

The row over the Post Office scandal and the hundreds of victims who are yet to be fully compensated has dominated headlines over recent days.

Post Office branches are welcoming more customers since the plight of their workers was dramatised on television, campaigners say.

The now-Lib Dem leader was advised as postal minister in 2010 to meet Alan Bates for "presentational reasons".