At least 10,000 people affected by Post Office IT scandal as bosses ‘maintained fiction’ Horizon data was accurate, report says – live

<p>Findings published from public inquiry into scandal labelled as worst miscarriage of justice in UK history</p><p>French police slashing the boats of people smugglers is not “pleasant” but the right tactic, <strong>Heidi Alexander</strong>, the transport secretary, has said. <strong>Jessica Elgot </strong>and<strong> Peter Walker</strong> have the story.</p><p><strong>Boris Johnson</strong>, the former Tory PM, has issued <a href="https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1942520516679479762">this tribute</a> to Norman Tebbit.</p><p>Norman Tebbit was a hero of modern Conservatism. In the early 1980s he liberated the British workforce from the socialist tyranny of the closed shop. He tamed the union bosses, and in so doing he helped pave the way for this country’s revival in the 1980s and 1990s.</p><p>At a time when the Labour government is now disastrously reversing those crucial reforms we need to remember what he did and why. In his single most famous phrase he once said that in the 1930s his unemployed father had got on his bike and looked for work. That wasn’t a heartless thing to say - as the Labour Party claimed. It was because he believed in thrift and energy and self-reliance. It was because he rejected a culture of easy entitlement.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/08/norman-tebbit-emmanuel-macron-horizon-post-office-scandal-uk-politics-live">Continue reading...</a>