Post Office scandal is coming up to a year since ITV beamed it into living rooms. Here's where we are now

Phase 7 of the Post Office Inquiry heard evidence from three high-profile witnesses.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds , former Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch and Fujitsu Europe chief executive Paul Patterson .

The focus of the new Labour government is to get compensation paid as quickly and to as many sub-postmasters as possible.

She used her evidence session at the Post Office inquiry as a platform to expound her view of a civil service burdened by “too much vanilla” It’s a very Kemi argument one she has used before when facing criticism as a minister.

The government has little interest right now in going to war with the judiciary.