Post Office boss was told 'don't rip off the band aid' on finances
Memo of Henry Staunton’s meeting with top civil servant last year says scandal-hit company was ordered to ‘hobble’ into election
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Memo of Henry Staunton’s meeting with top civil servant last year says scandal-hit company was ordered to ‘hobble’ into election
The former chairman of the Post Office was told by a top civil servant to “hobble into the election” and not to “rip the band-aid off” in terms of finances, an alleged unearthed memo shows.
Top civil servant told Henry Staunton there was no appetite to ‘rip off band aid’, according to sacked chairman’s note of conversation
Sarah Munby, a senior civil servant, has been dragged into a fierce row between the former Post Office boss and the Government over the Horizon scandal.
Rishi Sunak has refused to repeat allegations made by Kemi Badenoch earlier this week, that ex-Post Office boss Henry Staunton was lying.