DISGRACED ex-Post Office chief Paula Vennells should “seriously consider handing back” her CBE voluntarily, a Tory minister said today, as victims of the Horizon IT scandal demanded that the government “gets moving with payments.”

Post Office CEO from 2012 to 2019, Vennells was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list for services to the organisation.

She previously apologised for the suffering caused to sub-postmasters after 39 workers’ convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2021.