It would be fair to say that Sir Ed Davey has had better weeks in politics. Having missed PMQs this week due to family commitments, the Lib Dem leader decided that the best way of putting questions to bed over his role in the Post Office scandal to bed would be a time-honoured TV interview. Unfortunately his car-crash performance with ITV (who else?) means that they won’t be going away any time soon.
In the interview, released today, Sir Ed was repeatedly asked to apologise by Paul Brand for his inaction when the Horizon issues were brought to his attention, yet repeatedly declined to do so. ‘I’ve said time and time again that I deeply regret that I was lied to on an industrial scale,’ he said. When pushed for a more explicit apology, Davey would only say that his ‘heart goes out to the people that were hit’ by the convictions and that he ‘deeply regrets not getting to the bottom of the lies that were told.’
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