Post Office chairman told to delay compensation in election run-up, memo suggests

Top civil servant told Henry Staunton there was no appetite to 'rip off band aid', according to sacked chairman's note of conversation UK politics live - latest updates A senior civil servant told the former Post Office chairman that in the run-up to the election there was no appetite to "rip off the band aid" in terms of government finances, according to a memo he wrote at the time. Henry Staunton, who was sacked as chairman of the Post Office last month, has produced a record of the conversati...