‘Too trusting’ former boss of UK Post Office rolls out the ‘know nothing’ defence

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Paula Vennells, former chief executive of the UK Post Office, arrives to give evidence in the Post Office Horizon IT public inquiry in London. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergTwo types of waterworks were on display at the public inquiry into the UK Post Office’s Horizon IT miscarriage of justice scandal this week as the ceiling started dripping on to the inquiry chairman in the middle of an appearance by former Post Office chief executive, Paula Vennells.

“My memory was not very good at the start of this process,” she also claimed in the course of insisting that nobody had told her anything about anything, she was “disappointed” that information was not shared with her and that she was “too trusting”.The Dublin Portal: There’s no room for pretenders in Dublin and, like New York, it refuses to be sanitised

“I don’t think it’s absolutely vital that people spend all five days a week in the office as they did pre-Covid,” said Regnier, who moved to Harrogate in Yorkshire with his wife to raise their family 20 years ago. Although his own father was “amazing” and “not absent”, his daily commutes inevitably led to lost family time. As a result, Regnier didn’t see as much of his father as his two teenage kids see of him now. Time, as they say, is money.

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