The Office for Budget Responsibility said the state finances were facing ‘mounting risks’ in the face of growing debts.

More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with many wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting.

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Many subpostmasters have criticised the way in which the detailed individual claims are held as those who choose that method ...