Senior Civil Servants Raked in £40,000 A Year On Post Office Board

Sir Ed Davey is under fire for his role in the Post Office scandal, where innocent postmasters were wrongly prosecuted. He maintains that Post Office officials misled him rather than fobbing off the victims himself. Guido reminds his readers that some of those officials are senior civil servants…

Since 2012, the government has appointed a Shareholder Non-Executive Director to the Post Office Board, with fortunate senior civil servants from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) filling the position and receiving an annual salary of £40,000.[…] Read the rest