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Reporting the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal

  • Post Office CEO Nick Read announces his departure

    Nick Wallis

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    Nick Read, the Post Office Chief Executive, is standing down at the end of March next year. In an email to Subpostmasters (first picked by the ever-vigilant Sky News City Editor, Mark Kleinman) Read wrote: “it has been a privilege to work with you during what has been a challenging and difficult time for the business”. The Postmaster who forwarded me Read’s email did so with two words: “As expected.” Read is not currently doing his day job, having stood aside as CEO in July order to work on his evidence to the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry and “demonstrate…

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