Post Office scandal latest: Announcement on clearing names of victims ‘imminent’ as Rishi Sunak faces PMQs

The Government is set to “imminently” announce plans to clear the names of hundreds of Post Office branch managers wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal. Rishi Sunak will face MPs for Prime Minister’s Questions and is under pressure to set out how the Government will exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters accused of swindling money as a result of the flawed computer system. The minister said former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells has done the “right thing” by handing back her CBE in the wake of renewed focus on the Horizon scandal fuelled by the ITV drama “Mr Bates versus the Post Office”.