Sunak Plans Bill to Exonerate UK Post Office Scandal Victims

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Rishi Sunak announced a law to quash the convictions and speed up compensation to some 980 UK Post Office workers wrongfully convicted of theft and false accounting, as he seeks to draw a line under a long-running scandal that’s risen to the top of the political agenda in recent days.

The government will introduce primary legislation that would overturn the convictions of so-called sub-postmasters who were prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, Sunak said during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

“This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history,” he said in the House of Commons. “We will make sure that the truth comes to light, we right the wrongs of the past, and the victims get the justice they deserve.”

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In This Story: Rishi Sunak

Rish Sunak is a British Conservative Party MP, who was originally elected as a Member of Parliament in the Richmond (Yorks) constituency in 2015.

His father-in-law is billionaire founder of Indian IT giant, Infosys, NR Narayana Murthy.

Sunak experienced a meteoric rise, first to be selected for the “safest” Conservative seat in the UK, he would later become the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in under five years.

Brief Biography Here.

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