The Post Office Scandal: Justice Delivered?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at Rishi Sunak’s plan to bring in a new law that will overturn convictions for victims of the Horizon IT scandal.
James and Chris talk to Rebecca Thomson, the journalist who first broke the story back in 2009.
Alicia Kearns, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee is also on, after having grilled Lord Cameron, the foreign secretary, over the UK’s approach to the war in the middle east, as well as military support for Ukraine. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by James Cook. It was made by Chris Flynn with Clare Williamson, Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, more news about the post office scandal and that is that a law is going to be brought in to overturn the convictions for those caught up in it and we've had so much |
| 0:16.1 | reaction to this story from Friday when we chatted about it in detail on newscasts |
| 0:22.0 | thank you so much for all your messages and we've had so many and we do read them all, |
| 0:26.1 | every single one of them and one of them was an email from Roger Osbourne who said, |
| 0:30.8 | one element that came up in the first episode of the drama, that's the I TV drama, |
| 0:35.5 | which was looking at it, not mentioned since and I think underplayed, says Roger, was the role |
| 0:40.0 | of the journalist from Computer Weekly. Come on, you fellow journalists, give her some credit and airtime. |
| 0:46.0 | Well Roger, your wish is our command. |
| 0:48.0 | You will hear from that journalist Rebecca Thompson as well as Chris Mason |
| 0:52.0 | and Alicia Cair Kearns the Conservative |
| 0:54.5 | MP and will also later on get into her brief as chair of the Foreign Affairs |
| 0:58.6 | Committee all of that on this episode of Newscast. |
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