Kemi Badenoch hits out at former Post Office chairman in Horizon row

Mr Staunton, who took up the role in December 2022 following nine years as chairman of WH Smith, had told the newspaper: “Early on, I was told by a fairly senior person to stall on spend on compensation and on the replacement of Horizon and to limp, in quotation marks – I did a file note on it – limp into the election.