Post Office scandal: civil servant rejects claims she asked to slow compensation

Sarah Munby insists she never suggested to ex-Post Office chair Henry Staunton that he delay payments to post office operators

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The civil servant at the centre of the Post Office row has hit back against claims that she asked for compensation payments to post office operators to be delayed.

Henry Staunton, the former Post Office chair, claimed that Sarah Munby, the former top civil servant at the business department, suggested that they should slow compensation payments and “hobble” to the election.