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A post office van in Aldwych, central London, January 11, 2024
THERE must be no hiding place for scandal-hit Post Office bosses who “destroyed lives and then lied about it,” food workers demanded today.
Bakers’ union delegates gathered in Staffordshire for the union’s 2024 conference unanimously backed calls for those responsible for a huge miscarriage of justice to receive “no protection from the Establishment.”
The damning intervention comes amid growing demands for criminal prosecutions of those in charge during the Horizon IT system scandal, in which hundreds of innocent subpostmasters were wrongly accused of theft and endured prison terms and bankruptcy.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan