Organization Secretary Kemi Badenoch has actually stated she was required to step in over “problems” with Post Office governance by sacking its previous chairman.
Badenoch declined to discuss whether there will be other departures from the board of directors.
Henry Staunton stepped down from his function on Saturday following the Horizon IT scandal.
She informed broadcasters there required to be a “modification of workers” and it “simply wasn’t working” as the business stays under increased examination over the wrongful prosecution of numerous subpostmasters.
“It was extremely unfortunate that we needed to pertain to this conclusion … and among the important things that I believe is necessary when we do require to have a modification of workers is that we do not pester individuals or pursue them,” Ms Badenoch informed Sky’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips.
Kemi Badenoch …
“It’s all the fault of reporting”When they’ve had a years of absolutely nothing however shill press (with significant exceptions) LYING to us about how fantastic the Tories are & & now others are pointing out their utter cr * p
The TORY narcissists can’t cope.
Diddums #bbclaurak https://t.co/Oe13Pc1qjd— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 28, 2024
“The concerns that the Post Office have work out beyond the Horizon scandal, so this wasn’t almost Horizon and the continuous query into the Post Office; it’s about the Post Office as an entity and the governance of it.
“There is a board, there have actually been disputes throughout the board, and my view is that often you simply require a various individual to handle various problems.”
Mr Staunton stepped down as chairman of the state-owned company, having actually just been designated in December 2022 following 9 years as chairman of WH Smith.
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The Post Office prosecuted more than 700 branch supervisors in between 1999 and 2015
Ms Badenoch stated she had a telephone call with him at the weekend and they had “parted methods with shared authorization”, however later on included that she had actually asked him to go.
He had actually been charged with leading the board of directors as business reels from the fallout of what has actually been referred to as the UK’s greatest miscarriage of justice.
The Post Office prosecuted more than 700 branch supervisors in between 1999 and 2015 after defective Horizon accounting software application made it look as though cash was missing out on from their branches.
It comes at among the most unstable points in the business’s history, with a statutory query into the legend underway and restored public anger following its dramatisation in ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office previously this month.
Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake stated 980 postmasters were founded guilty however simply 93 have actually handled to get their convictions reversed.