Pat McFadden says he should have questioned Post Office defence of Horizon

MP who oversaw body in last Labour government tells inquiry wrong information had ‘terrible consequences’

The cabinet minister Pat McFadden has told the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal that he now wishes he had questioned the Post Office more over its “emphatic” defence of its flawed accounting software.

The Labour MP, who is now chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster after helping mastermind Keir Starmer’s election victory, said “wrong” information on the Horizon system has had “terrible human consequences”.

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