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Post Office Inquiry – McCausland: Asleep at the Neil
Interesting chap was Mr McCausland. I got the impression that he missed a trick with former Post Office General counsel Susan Crichton. McCausland was clearly a fair but macho director who needed people to make their case well in a business bearpit (see his stuff about advising Paula Vennells that Crichton needed to “get over…
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Post Office Inquiry: Clark-Cable, the Gentlemen Secretaries, have their say
Good morning! Hope you are doing okay. Yesterday we had the joys of two former Business Secretaries giving evidence to the Inquiry. I have written up my thoughts in: Clark and Cable: Responsible for everything, accountable for nothing … which I hope you find readable. It features a response from Lord Arbuthnot to Cable’s complaint…
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Post Office Inquiry: Margot James’ biggest regret and final Second Sight report published
Aye Caramba It was a sparsely-attended inquiry yesterday. Jo Hamilton was there with the Hudgells team, as were Terry and Cindy Seeney, which was a lovely surprise. I met first Terry and Cindy on the Wimborne leg of the Inside Story tour earlier this year, but everything was a bit rushed and we didn’t really…
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Post Office Scandal: Surviving the Post Office review, and a Baroness at the Inquiry
Morning If you didn’t get a chance to watching Surviving the Post Office last night, you can read my review here: A Trip Down Misery Lane and/or watch it on iPlayer here. There is an accompanying podcast series, which features extended interviews with the interviewees in the TV documentary. Listen to it here. The Blue…
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Post Office Inquiry: Swinson points the finger at Callard and Vennells
Good morning! Two people gave evidence yesterday – former Post Office minister Jo Swinson and former CEO of Royal Mail Group, Dame Moya Greene. For reasons which will become clear I focused solely on what Swinson had to say and wrote it up here: Furious Swinson claimed Paula Vennells deceived her Having slept on it,…
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Post Office Inquiry: McFadden and Davey
Good morning I managed to put up two blog posts yesterday – one on Pat “Magic” McFadden – former Post Office minister and current Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the second on Sir Ed Davey – former Post Office minister and current leader of the Liberal Democrats. McFadden gave evidence to the Post…
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Post Office Inquiry: Ken “I don’t” McCall and Calamity Kelly
Good morning friends One day this will all seem like a bad dream. Right now we’re all living it. Here is a link to my lengthy report on yesterday’s evidence – it’s called: Comical Ken and Captain Kelly Today we are going to hear from another Postal Affairs Minister – Sir Ed Davey, leader of…
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Post Office Inquiry: the fit-up machine
Morning I went to the Inquiry yesterday. I saw Andy Dunks give evidence. If I were a betting man I would put a small amount of money on him facing criminal charges by September next year. He’s the most obvious choice within Fujitsu, possibly including Gareth Jenkins. Judge for yourself with my report on yesterday’s…
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Post Office Scandal: civil service advice to Ed Davey used to shut down Alan Bates published in full
Hi there I hope you had a good weekend. There was a lot of news and sport going on, for sure. Today at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the briefing note given to Ed Davey ahead of his meeting with Alan Bates was given another going over, so I sought to enquire if it…
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Post Office Inquiry: The Callard Complacency
Good morning I am afraid I have not had the opportunity to put up a piece on Richard Callard, nor have I had time to watch the evidence of Patrick O’Sullivan, the second witness on Wednesday. I was at Callard yesterday in a largely deserted hearing room, though both Richard Brooks from Private Eye and…
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