Mr Sunak was asked by ITV what he thought it says that it has taken an ITV drama to get the Government to “refocus on the issue of the [Horizon] scandal at the Post Office?”
He said: “This was an absolutely appalling miscarriage of justice.
“These things obviously started a really long time ago, and it’s right that they’re looked at properly.
“People were treated absolutely appallingly; it’s wrong and we’ll do everything we can to make it right.
“My predecessors started the process of doing that […] People should know that we are on it and want to make things right.”
He said that the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is looking into “speeding up the process”.
He said: “This was an absolutely appalling miscarriage of justice.
“These things obviously started a really long time ago, and it’s right that they’re looked at properly.
“People were treated absolutely appallingly; it’s wrong and we’ll do everything we can to make it right.
“My predecessors started the process of doing that […] People should know that we are on it and want to make things right.”
He said that the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk is looking into “speeding up the process”.
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00:00 Now, these things obviously started a very long time ago,
00:04 and it's right that they're looked at properly.
00:06 And the stories are appalling.
00:08 People were treated absolutely appallingly.
00:10 That's wrong, and we should do everything
00:12 we can to make it right.
00:15 I would say that over the last few years,
00:17 my predecessors started the process of doing that,
00:19 had the inquiry.
00:20 Actually, as chancellor, I approved the compensation
00:23 schemes for the first time, which
00:25 are now in the process of being paid out,
00:27 and over almost 150 million pounds
00:30 has been paid out to thousands of people.
00:33 So people should know that we are on it,
00:35 and we want to make this right.
00:36 The money's been set aside.
00:38 Now, what we are now looking at is,
00:40 how can we speed all of that up?
00:42 Understandably, we-- I'm very clear.
00:44 We want to get that out the door as quickly as possible.
00:47 There are legal processes that people have had to go through,
00:50 but the justice secretary today is
00:51 meeting with the relevant ministers
00:53 to see is there more we can do to speed up
00:55 some of those processes.
00:56 But people should be rest assured, the money is there.
00:59 I approved it as chancellor.
01:00 There are three different compensation schemes,
01:02 and we will do everything we can to make this right for all
01:05 the people affected.
01:06 It's simply wrong what happened.
01:07 They shouldn't have been treated like this,
01:09 and we should do everything we can to make it right for them.