Alan Bates: No reply from PM about Post Office compensation
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Alan Bates: No reply from PM about Post Office compensation
Alan Bates says he wrote to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer twice last month to set a deadline for compensation for the victims of the Horizon IT scandal.
But the former subpostmaster says he has "never received a response".
Report by Brooksl.
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