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The chairman of the UK Post Office will step down, the government said on Saturday, amid growing frustration over the state-owned company’s governance as it reels from a scandal which led to the wrongful conviction of hundreds of sub-postmasters.
British business minister Kemi Badenoch and Post Office Chair, Henry Staunton, “agreed to part ways with mutual consent” in a phone call earlier, a government spokesperson said in a statement.
An interim chair would be appointed shortly and a recruitment process for a new chair will be launched in due course.
Staunton joined the Post Office board in December 2022.


Amid mounting public anger, Britain is moving to quash convictions and pay compensation after the self-employed sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting between 1999 and 2015.
Japan’s Fujitsu is under pressure because the Post Office workers were convicted as a result of glitches in the Horizon software developed by the company.
Calls grow for Japan’s Fujitsu to pay up in Britain’s Post Office scandal
Last week, Fujitsu said it would work with the British government on “appropriate actions” including compensation, based on the findings of an inquiry into the scandal.
Postal minister Kevin Hollinrake said on Wednesday that Fujitsu should be contributing hundreds of millions of pounds to pay the compensation bill the government is expecting over the scandal.


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UK Post Office scandal: chairman Henry Staunton to step down amid mounting public anger

A sign hangs outside a post office in London on January 8. Photo:  EPA-EFE

Japan’s Fujitsu ‘morally obligated’ to compensate wronged UK postmasters says company’s European head during inquiry

A post office logo on a shopfront on a street in London, on Tuesday. Photo: AP

Post Office CEO Nick Read and Fujitsu Services Ltd Director Paul Patterson give evidence to a hearing of the Business and Trade Select Committee in the House of Commons, in London, on Tuesday. Photo: PRU/AFP

Police probe Britain’s Post Office for accusing over 700 employees of theft. The culprit was an IT glitch

A pedestrian walks past a Post Office in London. Faulty accounting systems at Britain’s Post Office meant that over 700 postal workers were wrongly convicted of theft and fraud, with many ending up in prison. Photo: EPA-EFE

A postman delivers letters in London, Britain, on Saturday. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the Post Office is under criminal investigation over fraud offences during the Horizon scandal. Photo: EPA-EFE

A letter box in London, Britain. Over 700 post office branch managers were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 after faulty Horizon accounting software wrongly showed money was missing from their shops. Photo: EPA-EFE

A post office displays a sign in London, Britain. The Post Office maintained for years that data from Horizon was reliable and accused branch managers of dishonesty when the system showed money was missing. Photo: EPA-EFE

British Post Office used racist slur to describe black, Asian suspects in Horizon IT scandal

Many sub-postmasters in the UK were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting, theft and fraud. Photo: Reuters


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Hundreds of postal staff were wrongfully convicted of theft and fraud as a result of glitches in Fujitsu’s Horizon software
The Japanese firm has said it will work with the British government on ‘appropriate actions’ including compensation, based on the findings of an inquiry


Hundreds of postal staff were wrongfully convicted of theft and fraud as a result of glitches in Fujitsu’s Horizon software.


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Kemi Badenoch