Sir Ed Davey Dodges Post Office Scandal Apology Question TEN Times In Interview

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey refused ten times to issue an apology for his involvement in the Post Office Horizon scandal in a tense interview with ITV News on Friday.

Journalist Paul Brand pushed Davey repeatedly but the politician managed to dodge the question ten times. Davey worked as Postal Minister under former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government between 2010 and 2012.

“I’ve said time and time again that I deeply regret that I was lied to on an industrial scale,” Davey said, expressing sympathy but stopping short of apologising himself.

He said he felt for those postmasters affected by the wrongful convictions but maintained his stance of regretting “not getting to the bottom of the lies that were told.”

The scandal, which has been labelled one of the largest miscarriages of justice in British history, saw hundreds of sub-postmasters convicted of fraud and theft between 1999 and 2015, due to flaws in the Horizon IT system. Davey asserts that he was deceived about the number of sub-postmasters involved and the functionality of the Horizon system, describing it as a “conspiracy of lies.”

The scandal’s re-emergence in public consciousness follows the release of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of new legislation aimed at exonerating and compensating the affected sub-postmasters.