I have found it quite fascinating this morning, listening to Paula Vennells giving evidence in the Post Office Enquiry. Ms Vennells was in overall charge when sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted, some sent to jail, others made to pay back thousands of pounds they had supposedly ‘stolen’, and at least one took their own life over issues later found to be due to ‘Horizon’, a faulty computer programme designed by Fujitsu.

For somebody working at such a senior level, the amount of information that Ms Vennells did not know about at the time is astonishing. She knows nothing, apparently. It’s amazing how much she doesn’t know. Nobody gave her any information. She didn’t know about bugs in the computer programme, about dozens of prosecutions of sub-postmasters going on while she was network director, blah, blah, blah, but all she does know is that she is so very, very sorry. There have even been a few tears shed this morning.

I wonder whether the truth will ever come out? Ms Vennells’ job was to protect the reputation of the Post Office and make assurances regarding the safety and trustworthiness of Fujitsu’s computer programme. The Post Office is owned by the Government, and so it makes me wonder just who it is that is pulling the strings here. Sub-postmasters were being prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, but of course, the three Prime Ministers we had during that time probably know nothing about any of it either.

Everybody is blameless, but at last, finally, sub-postmasters will be financially compensated for all the unnecessary distress they suffered at the hands of those who didn’t know anything .