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New law announced to overturn Post Office scandal convictions

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During PMQs today (10 January), prime minister Rishi Sunak said a new emergency law will be introduced so people wrongly convicted in the Horizon scandal are exonerated. The hundreds of post office branch managers who were victims in the scandal will be exonerated by the…

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