'Institutional bias' prevented PO probe

Published date12 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
David Smith said the organisation's board members were "not as focused as we could and should have been on the Horizon issues" due to a banking crisis and "concern" over the separation of the business

Mr Smith told the Post Office inquiry he felt a "huge sense of regret and remorse" about the scandal, and said if he knew the system could have been "tampered with" he would have approached things differently.

He admitted opportunities were missed to "consider an external investigation" after the Post

Office commissioned a report...

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