British government to work with authorities in the North over post office scandal 

Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake (Picture: James Manning/PA)

The UK government has said it wants to work with authorities in Northern Ireland to ensure Post Office branch managerswrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal in the region have their names cleared.

Blanket legislation to exonerate subpostmasters convicted in England and Wales will be introduced within weeks after British prime minister Rishi Sunak said they were victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.