Kemi Badenoch is a one-woman attack unit

Kemi Badenoch has been launching a few more grenades into the Post Office row, with a bullish statement in the House of Commons dismissing the allegations made at the weekend by Henry Staunton. The former Post Office chair had claimed an official had asked him to slow compensation payments to victims of the Horizon scandal until after the next election, and that the Business Secretary had told him ‘someone’s got to take the rap for this’ when she sacked him, and that he had been sacked because he had opposed a government attempt to install a Whitehall insider onto the board. 

But Badenoch told MPs this afternoon that ‘these allegations are completely false’, including that she refused to apologise to him for the way he learned about his dismissal from Sky News.

In the call he referenced, I made it abundantly clear that I disapproved of the media breaking any aspects of this story and out of respect for Henry Staunton’s reputation, I went to great pains to make my concerns about his conduct private.